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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canoe Expert Adney gives lessons to New Brunswick's Micmac and Malecite Indians in their forgotten art: canoe making. He sews the bark with spruce roots. There are 100 Adney-built scale models in the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va. Adney also has another interest. He believes vocal sounds in every tongue express common mental reactions. On this theory he explains similarities between European and North American Indian speech. Example: in the language of the Algonquian Indian, mundo means God or, literally, "protecting hand"; in Anglo-Saxon, mund meant hand. Explains Adney: "[By this method] I have cracked...
Long before the Prime Minister's speaking time, the restive House was jampacked. Not in five months had the House of Commons heard from its star reporter, the man who more than any other could cast events in "scale, structure and proportion." Since then the Allied world had passed through the Moscow and Teheran meetings, known high hope and dour doubt. Now,' on his red leather bench, Winston Churchill champed, shuffled a handful of notes, twice rose in a false start before the Speaker gave him the sign. For one hour and 18 minutes, the full, familiar voice...
...finally he had seen air power in full-scale action. Undoubtedly he would see more of the same as his men go on with the two-way process of grinding the Luftwaffe down in the air and strangling it in the battered factories...
German retaliation raids must be expected to increase, Churchill said. There is also no doubt that the Germans are trying to prepare a large-scale attack against England with rockets, pilotless aircraft or both...
...tried to form the world's Covenant that would end its preventable misery. "The task of this Commission," said Woodrow Wilson soberly, "is like that of the body of men who drew up the Constitution of the United States." The cost of their failure was on an equal scale...