Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between there are reminiscent essays, a travel sketch, essays on English heroes and English character, reprints of the author's literate radio broadcasts to English schoolchildren. Professor Rowse says that when he came to collect his writings he was surprised to find the strong and consistent theme that ran through them-"something more than pride in, a deep love for, English things . . . for our tradition itself and the literature in which it is expressed and handed on." It is likely to inspire much the same emotion in President Roosevelt (most of whose ancestors were English, not Dutch...
...site for supplies, factories, munitions works, etc. Well placed emplacements on this side of the moon, on the other hand, could command every part of the earth as if it were a chicken turning on a spit, simply waiting for New York or Moscow to come within range.... A sketch is enclosed...
...prewar tours of duty, he had inspected countless islands, memorizing tactical details. His sketch maps, from memory, of the Ormoc valley on Leyte were better than anything previously available...
...Parkington" is full of the trite situations and type characters that have distinguished all of the joint efforts of Miss Garson and Mr. Pidgeon. Concerned estensibly with the recollections of the wife of one of America's great business brain, the picture fails miserably in any attempt to sketch the characters of Major (Pidgeon) and Mrs. (Garson) Parkington more than skin deep. It penetrates no farther than to show at the start of the film a big blustering oil man and his innocent gal of the far west, and at its conclusion a cynical, rather heartless old woman. The only...
...wish I had the space to sketch the backgrounds of some of the other editors and writers who have joined us in recent months. But perhaps these examples will serve to show you the kind of newsmen we are trying to add to TIME'S staff in these days when it is so much harder to gather the news and make sure it all adds up to a true picture of world events...