Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this first novel, with great seriousness and intensity, Miss Schmitt makes a try at a genuine U.S. tragedy. Too few U.S. writers try that, and almost none succeed. Miss Schmitt deserves a medal for valor, not for success...
...girls has just spent a week on the "graveyard shift." She has stood it very well and was able to adjust her sleeping habits quickly. In fact, she found it rather novel and exciting to work at night. . . . HELEN I. BEACH...
Postponed until the end of the war is development of the newest and most novel method of fertilizing with nitrogen: use of gaseous ammonia (NH3) - a discovery of Shell Chemical Co. The gas is allowed to escape from steel cylinders into irrigation waters, where it dissolves and is carried into every part of California or chards, rice fields, truck farms. These un usual amounts of quickly available nitrogen cause the plants to grow with startling speed. Ever since Shell's cautious introduction of this gaseous fertilizer, growers' demand for it has far exceeded the supply. But now Shell...
Franz Werfel is a second-flight European man of letters with the schooled competence of his breed and with a reverence for the human spirit which too many of his literary superiors lack. In this novel about the miracle of Lourdes, which is an act of piety transcending blood and creed ("I am not a Catholic but a Jew"), he brings that reverence into clean, spacious focus...
...directions nor dimensions." Peter is sympathetically realized, and he is surrounded by some refreshing characters. There are genuinely tender domestic scenes, and a deeply felt sense of what a house, a farm, a son, a grandchild can mean. Yet Floods of Spring, which sets out to be a philosophical novel, is more often an over-insistent tract...