Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Current Sabotage. In Albany, Ore., a squirrel short-circuited the city out of electricity and water (electric-pumped...
...Mighty Mo" shuddered from stem to stern. At her Hudson River berth last week, she was boarded by 60,000 sightseeing youngsters in a single day. Manhattan's moppets were marauders: many came armed with pliers, wrenches and screw drivers, besides their standard equipment of penknives. In a short, sharp action they...
...Americans roughed it with the Chinese in the field. On training campaigns, they lived hard together, sweated out long marches, heat and sickness together, ate rice and slum together when U.S. rations ran short. Out of the prodding, teaching, learning and comradeship a new respect and understanding was fashioned between the Allied fighting men. And out of the traditionally primitive and inefficient material of the Chinese Army emerged a confident striking force...
Stedman Noble '49, pianist, will perform tonight at 7 o'clock in the first of a series of short, informal Friday evening music recitals in the Smith Halls Common Room...
TRIAL BALANCE-William March-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). William Edward March Campbell worked his way up from $25-a-week stenographer to vice president of a steamship company. During a long illness, he started writing short stories under the pen name of William March. At 44 (in 1938) he quit business to give his full time to writing. Author of two successful novels (Company K, The Tallons), March still specializes in short stories, which have appeared in almost every kind of U.S. magazine from The Yale Review to Esquire. In Trial Balance, Storyteller March has selected 55 of his best: short...