Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago the British Government dispatched to the capitals of Spain's warring factions-Barcelona and Burgos-a closely printed, 50-page memorandum entitled: "The text of a proposed resolution reaffirming and extending the Nonintervention Agreement and provision for the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain, for the grant in certain circumstances of belligerent rights to the two parties in Spain, and for the observation of the Spanish frontiers by land...
...vehicle as slick and streamlined as a sedan just off the assembly line, as capacious as a 1925 touring car, as comfortably upholstered as a buggy. It concerns itself with the lives of four musical smalltown sisters, the Lemps, three of whom are Lola, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane. Gale Page plays the fourth. What the Lemp girls want and what they get are two different things...
...displayed 18 of his new works. Critics found them fully abstract, only remotely Freudian, with more depth and movement than most abstract paintings. This was because Artist Ferren has the .inventiveness to paint curving forms in space which are as interesting and satisfactory to look at as, say, a page of designs for ships' propellers, done in color...
...word, 23-page memorandum. Economist Berle ranged far and wide, played no favorites, outlined a program that might well keep the committee in session for at least a decade. "The investigation," he said, "should be essentially a search to find an organization of business that actually works...
...interesting sample of the latter is . . . and Tell of Time, a 712-page novel based on the post-Civil War background of Author Krey's Texas forbears (the family still owns a plantation in the cotton-growing Brazos Valley of southeastern Texas). Here the tedium of the narrative contrasts particularly with the dramatic events in which the family was involved. The Civil War itself was only slightly more violent than Reconstruction Texas, with its swarms of ruined Confederate soldiers turned loose, its bitter landowners turned Ku Kluxers to fight a black army of occupation...