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Decline, and Winter Flowering. Yeats was 60 now; broad and rather dandified with the black ribbon of his spectacles "falling like a bar across his face," he could no longer be compared, as malignant George Moore had once brilliantly compared him, with an old umbrella left behind at a picnic...
...Road is a ribbon along the fair, azure sea. It wanders past graves inscribed "This is hallowed ground. They died in the service of their country." It twists up arid escarpments. It streaks, hot and straight, for miles across the desert sands...
What is Germany? Miss Thompson broadcast by CBS short wave to Germany every Friday from March to September this year, so effectively that she won the blue ribbon of a special condemnation by Dr. Goebbels and. even the grand prize, a reference in a Hitler speech. She spoke her message to Hans, a close friend of bygone years, striving to persuade Hans and like-minded Germans to desire their own defeat-not individual defeats, but the defeat of Germany as now organized...
...white-&-blue ribbon, severed in the middle, fluttered in the Arctic wind. The first U.S.-to-Alaska land route (TIME, Aug. 31) was formally open. Trucks began rolling supplies along the 1,500 miles of double-lane, partly graveled highway from Fort St. John, B.C. to Fairbanks in the heart of Alaska...
...window box to a farm in the country was invited to display his produce in the reception room, and when the judges had cast their final vote we found that TIME's exhibitors had made out pretty well. TIME's General Manager somehow took the blue ribbon for preserves and the Managing Editor of the MARCH OF TIME on the Air won the title "best farmer" with photographs of his Aberdeen-Angus cattle...