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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Search for Truth
...nine-day period of national mourning was declared, Filipino planes and government troops combed the mountains in search of the slayers. From his hideout, Huk Leader Luis Taruc issued a statement which would scarcely comfort or reassure the bereaved islanders. If, he said, his own investigation revealed "a breach of Hukbalahap iron discipline," punishment of the guilty party would be carried out swiftly...
...search for speed on the assembly line he has gone from typewriter to electric typewriter to direct dictation and finally to dictating machines. Now he has as many as four secretaries at a time taking the stuff off records, rattles off 6,000 to 7,000 words a day; in a high-speed burst he has hit as much as 235,000 words a month...
...problem facing the college critic of the Theater Workshop's productions of the last three years has been two-fold. First, he must search each time for new superlatives (for each show has been better than the last, thought the plays have not all been equal) and he must restrain himself in order to retain the reader's respect. Second, he must remember (and this is hardest) that he has witnessed an amateur production put on by his fellow students. I now have this problem, "The Tempest," which opened last night, is the Workshop's master concoction. They have emptied...
Arrested in Lynn after more than a week's search, Eugene Wiswall, former soda jerk, was arraigned yesterday on charges of breaking and entering George's Cottage Grille where he worked early this fall...