Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning at week's end, fugitives from Shanghai arrived at Lunghua airport, found the field deserted, a brief message scrawled in chalk across the schedule board. The message read: "Evacuated at midnight." That afternoon, some 750 miles to the south in Hong Kong, an American pilot who had flown one of the last planes out of Shanghai shrugged and said: "Looks like we'll all be going home soon. We're running out of cities to evacuate...
...more than ever an unusual figure -an educator who never claimed to be learned, seldom had time to read, still spoke with a Yankee twang. Old boys and townspeople remembered him jingling to school on snowy days in his horse-drawn sleigh, or shuffling through the autumn leaves with his worn grey cape blowing behind him. He has long kept office at a big desk in the hallway of the main building, where boys can stop and chat between classes...
...jobs in work gangs. With one gang, in 1911, he illegally entered the U.S. He worked on railroads, on farms, in brickyards, in steel mills. For a while he taught French in Chicago. And everywhere he went, he studied-Jesuit Educator Wilfrid Parsons once called him "the best-read man I have ever...
...years "on the God beat" for the Press since that Sunday, Frank Stewart has been a welcome stranger at 550 of Cleveland's 800 churches, and his Monday column on the editorial page ("A Stranger Goes to Church") has become probably the liveliest and best-read newspaper church column in the U.S. This week, at its first meeting in Buffalo, the Religious Newswriters Association took official note of this; it elected 55-year-old Frank Stewart president...
...steep. H. P. Lovecraft's The Outsider sells for from $50 to $100, Vol. I No. 1 of Astounding Stories of Super Science for as high as $50. Several publishers estimate that from 30% to 40% of their readers are professional men, some of them scientists who read the stories for relaxation but with a sharp eye for scientific errors. Clubs are often organized by fans who hold regular discussion meetings and publish such magazines as Fandom Speaks, Fantasy Review, Macabre, The Gorgon and Lunacy. One Californian keeps his precious 2,000-volume collection in a fireproof concrete vault...