Word: scans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to a recent poll on "Post-War Planning for Smith" appearing in "SCAN", the school's paper, telephones and fireplaces in every room, comfortable beds, floors that do not heave in unexpected places, concealed radiators, automatic dishwashers, and private baths were all mentioned as prominent features of the future college house...
...mused Marmaduke, "the epic peice would be wittled down to a few lines which dident even scan, and would be handed back to the noble poet with the embargo: 'Not for publication before 00.30 hours B.S.T. . . .' And the noble poet would probely give up poetry altogether and get a job writing hand-outs for the Ministry...
...self-congratulatory Four Jills in a Jeep (TIME, April 3) ended abruptly when a crowd of G.l.s walked out on it. In Alaska, where Olivia De Havilland is normally very popular with G.l.s, they fiercely hooted her flag-waving tantrums at the end of Government Girl. Everywhere, G.l.s scan war films for technical errors to razz; and everywhere they reserve their most scathing cracks for pseudo-heroics...
...avidly, write letters to him, pray for him, telephone their newspapers to ask about his health and safety. Abroad, G.I.s and generals recognize him wherever he goes, seek him out, confide in him. The War Department and the high command in the field, rating him a top morale-builder, scan his column for hints.* Fellow citizens and fellow-newsmen have heaped honors...
...heavy-headed grain that was ripening across the whole west half of Kansas. Now it all hung on the weather. Each night the Kansas far mers and their wives went off to bed only after a last worried look at the sky; each morning they hurried out to scan the skies again, to put a speculative finger to the wind. Two more weeks of good weather, not too hot, and above all, no rain, would bring the lushest wheat harvest in a decade...