Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emerson D for seven weeks in a row. Harvard has long laughed at the wit of its son, and it is only fair that meanwhile its son shoudl have been storing up laughs at Harvard. Professors, students and the University life itself are all the subjects of his probing pen, which seems to have only to seek to find humor...
Last week Lady MacRobert took out her pen and checkbook again. She sent Sir Archibald Sinclair ?20,000 to purchase four fighter planes for use "on fronts where they could aid Russia." She asked that three of the planes be named for her sons, that the fourth be called "MacRobert Salute to Russia (Lady)." "Had I been a man, I, too would have flown," said gallant Lady MacRobert...
...gazed piteously at his hands, so white, so unblemished; hands which had held nothing heavier than a pen since they had passed out of the rattle stage. He felt his biceps, and it suddenly occurred to him that those arm muscles had never exerted themselves more than to reach across the table for a dry Martini. As he looked at his feet, perched lackadaisically on the desk in front of him, the thought crossed his mind that the major part of their existence had been spent in just such a position. A feeling of disgust crept over...
...helmet, admitted that he never believed in God before. Chaplains and others all agree that more people believe in God since the war has begun. The sight of a soldier sitting by a machine gun reading a Bible is not uncommon in Bataan or Corregidor. Soldiers and sailors pen brief notes to the chaplains asking for New Testaments, and several of the chaplains have passed out over 2,000 copies since...
...been rejected by death is easily tempted to take up the pen.'' Such is Hillary's avowed reason for writing down at white heat this compact, moving journal. He has, however, a stronger reason, which gives his chapters their impact...