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...story is that of Francie Nolan from her twelfth to her seventeenth year in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn before and during World War I. The book has most of the time-tested character types and situations in fiction: Katie, the hardworking, self-sacrificing mother; Johnny, the lovably alcoholic, singing-waiter father; Francie, the good, book-loving slum child who yearns to be a writer; Neeley, her little brother; and an assortment of incredible relatives, including a peasant grandmother who speaks with the wisdom of Confucius and the force of the King James Version...
...were risky against European armies. Finally, Bazaine saw with misgivings the Prussian invention of the needle gun, with its immense superiority of fire power. His conclusion: for France defensive war is better than offensive war. "It is better," he said, "to conduct operations systematically (i.e., defensively], as in the Seventeenth Century." "That delusion," says Author Guedalla, "was to cost France the loss of a second...
Even today, in the seventeenth month of our struggle against the international disease of fascism, a goodly proportion of our national Congress as well as of the American people seem to have forgotten the fact which Pearl Harbor should have made inescapable and unforgettable--no point on the globe is more than sixty hours distant by bomber; no nation is safe amidst international anarchy. But the isolationists do not, or choose not to, agree...
Both the June and September Freshmen are scheduled for a re-check tomorrow through the seventeenth, which will make the third reading on the June '46 Class, and the second on the September '46 Class. The results will enable Norman Fradd, assistant director of athletics, to decide whether or not the new training program is adequate and also to eliminate from compulsory conditioning classes those who can achieve a score better than...
Within History and Literature are special fields, most popular of which have been America, England, and the Nineteenth century. A small field such as the Seventeenth or Eighteenth century has its advantages, however, in that a smaller amount of material can be better digested...