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...Sixteen government agencies-for planning, building and financing houses-were heaped together in a formless pile. Somewhere under all this trash was a record of eight years of peacetime housing bungling, of a year and a half of defense housing bungling. Hundreds of thousands of badly needed houses were still being drafted or just being argued about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Sammy the Sweeper | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Trend's February issue reaches such heights only through its, poets led by Katinka Loeser, an alumna of Chicago, currently studying aviation. Her "Modern Language" combines in sixteen short lines a concise explanation of the problems and techniques of the modern writers with a poetic expression coming as near the lyric as the static quality of intellectual poetry will permit. This same bound lyricism, gaining in immediacy and intellectual intenseness what it loses in fluid song, characterizes all the better poems of the issue. Helen Wieselburg's "Starway," and Creighton Gilbert's "War Poem" again display the advantages as well...

Author: By T. S. K., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 2/27/1942 | See Source »

Last month Buck officially assumed his duties as wartime Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, sixteen years after he began as an Instructor in History under Professor Arthur Schlesinger, also a graduate of Ohio State...

Author: By J. M., | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 2/19/1942 | See Source »

Dick Karb led the scoring with sixteen markers, and Andy Crichton, Saul Marlas, and Joe Brogatti each contributed ten points to the victor's total. Bob Cross and John Steppacher completed the team which captured its first organized contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 Quintet Beats B and N | 2/11/1942 | See Source »

...Sixteen of the 20 Latin American Republics celebrated the birthday. Costa Rica named a street in San Jose Avenida Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Birthday No. 60 | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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