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...directly opposed to all that democratic countries cherish as freedom. The idea that an adequate education of any kind can be obtained by means of a miscellaneous assortment of a hundred books, more or less, is laughable when viewed practically. A five-foot bookshelf for adults, to be read, reread, and digested at leisure throughout a lifetime, is one thing. Crowded into four years and dealt out in fixed doses, it is quite another thing. In theory and basic aim, however, it is not funny. For it marks a departure from what is sound in the Greek view of knowledge...
...Invasion story to bed at 9 o'clock that night-and I think we owe our editors some sort of tribute for the job they did. I reread their stories Friday- and even at that time, 65 hours after their last correction was made, every sentence in their stories still "stood up"-and they gave me as good a grasp of what was happening as all the thousands of other words I read that day written on the basis of much later news...
...line ship operators blinked, reread the report, blinked again: 6% of the dollar volume of U.S. imports last year arrived by air. Another eye opener: during the dreary months when submarines were sinking Allied ships faster than Henry Kaiser and others could build them, shipments in big-bellied Army & Navy air transports were 20 times safer than those on the seas...
...tell the whole story of Joseph and His Brothers, explains Author Mann, means going back 15 years to the day he reread the Bible story of Joseph, and beyond that to Mann's own development as a writer...
...Wait," said he, while he reread his instructions. "It says nothing; so do nothing...