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...Government backs up this buying spree with one stock answer: the unprecedented food requirements of the Army, Navy and Lend-Lease. So far so good. But the big trouble is that Government purchasing agents have probably gone beyond all rhyme or reason. Of the mountains of canned goods bought last year, the Government has so far used about one-third-all the rest gathers dust and rust (but no vitamins) in warehouses and quartermaster depots. Moan the canners: now the Government plans to expand buying, thus build stockpiles still higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Overstuffed Cupboard | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...starting lineup. Dean Hennessey, sixth in the Ivy League scoring race, is at one forward, teaming with George Dillon. Captain Hugh Hyde is the Crimson center, with Mike Fansler and Jack Torgan at the guards. The hoopsters lately have been like the little girl in the nursery rhyme: when they are good, they are very, very good; but when they are bad, they are horrid...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Fire-Breathing Quaker Five Engages Crimson in Ivy League Game Here | 2/24/1943 | See Source »

...nursery rhyme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Peacetime Clamor | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Characterizing all poetry, with the exception of blank verse, as a form of self-discipline from within and without. Frost explained how great were the obligations of a poet once he had started his work. "Once an initial rhyme is made," he said, "the poet cannot avoid continuing in the same style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROST READS WORK TO FIVE HUNDRED | 11/13/1942 | See Source »

...adding two & two the nation's press and politicos tried to find rhyme & reason in primaries throughout the country, in order to find aid & comfort for November elections. But the result was a confused equation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Voting as Usual | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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