Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting," White wrote, "is nerve-tearing. A Japanese soldier sits in a muddy garrison post exposed to guerrilla sniping; he camps in a muddy town hated by its people; he goes out guerrilla chasing and is probably wounded, perhaps killed. Frequently supplies fail to come through and the unit goes on short mess-or starves...
...Wisconsin's Green Bay Packers: the annual post-season play-off for the national professional football championship; crushing the New York Giants, defending champions, 27-to-0; before a capacity crowd of 32,000, some of whom paid $30 a pair for their seats; at State Fair Grounds, Milwaukee. Held in nearby Milwaukee because Green Bay's Stadium could seat only 23,000, the game's $83,000 gate assured each victorious Packer $704, each Giant...
...conditioned Park Avenue office, said Picture Post's Hastings, "is equipped with a dictaphone, a telephone extension system which takes 20 incoming calls at the same time, and a brass spittoon. Joe has no use for the latter, but the utensil is traditional in every public place in America." For breakfast he has coffee, toast, fruit juice and cereal; for dinner, swordfish...
...intrigues a reader of London's illustrated press as a good, meaty article on the daily life of a cinema star, an Earl's daughter, an Indian Raja. On sale in the U. S. last week was the latest U. S. edition of London's Picture Post (dated a fortnight later than the British edition), containing an English journalist's solemn pictorial record of the life of an average New Yorker...
...Picture Post's reporter was a pale, cadaverous Briton named Douglas MacDonald Hastings, who last spring spent two weeks in Manhattan with a cameraman. According to Journalist Hastings, an average New Yorker lives in suburban Larchmont, "goes up to work" on the subway. His grandfather was a German immigrant: "where he came from nobody knows...