Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Words & Moods. In the far more significant provincial elections (30,000,000 voters), to be held between January and April, the issue will be Pakistan-whether or not to slice off the four predominantly Moslem provinces in India's northwest corner, plus Bengal and Assam in the east, as a separate Moslem land...
Production alone could furnish the answers. If industry did the job in peace which it had done in war, then the answers would sound pleasant to businessmen. They would have their profits. And labor might well have a larger slice of the national pie. There was no reason why industry could not do the job as long as it realized the size of the job to be done...
...Webster has learned to slice and serve his generous chunks of U.S. life methodically. Caspar (The Timid Soul) appears Sundays and Mondays. The pitilessly fanatic and bad-mannered bridge players run Fridays. Boyhood's lovingly elaborated triumphs (The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime) and defeats (Life's Darkest Moment} appear on Saturdays and Tuesdays. Thursdays bring How to Torture Your Husband (or Wife). On Wednesdays, in The Unseen Audience, he pokes a sharp-pointed stick at radio-which of all mixed blessings most needs satirizing, and gets it least. Webster, in fact, is possibly radio...
...Slice of Life. In Burganj, India, death came to Haji Ghulam Mohammed, 127, married ten times (one wife tried to poison him), a father 32 times (oldest living child 85; youngest...
...lush vine, suited his shears to the times. Noting that the vine had waxed during wartime until it bore 3,649,000 employes, he decided that it was too late for mere snipping. His proposal to the Senate: chop off all but 1,000,000 at a single slice, and send them back home...