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According to "Look," the weekly picture magazine, he has an easy-going, friend-winning personality, leads a sober, early-to-bed, social life, has been elected to most of the 'prestige' organizations on campus," and is an "all-around 'good...
...great day for the Americas. The man whom Mexico sent on a visit to the U.S.-her Foreign Minister-was in sober truth as great a statesman and as big a figure in hemisphere affairs as any to be found in Washington. Ezequiel Padilla was not only the man whose eloquence swayed the Rio Conference to support the United Nations; he was the symbol of the coming of age of the American republics...
...changes forced by the airplanes on all the basic attributes of fighting ships-firepower, mobility and protection-have been so marked that some of them will be apparent even to landlubbers. In the days after 1942 no design changes will be too fantastic to be dismissed without sober consideration...
World Tour. So ran the arguments for western Europe as the front where the U.S. and its allies should concentrate. But could the U.S. do it? The sober fact was that the U.S. had already committed its strength to more fronts than it could now effectively defend, much less use for simultaneous offensives...
Arrau's well-tailored brown suits, his irrepressible love for jewelry are deceiving. Far from a superficial showoff, he has the elements of true greatness. Though he has a prodigious technique, he does not slug the piano; he approaches his art with sober modesty, plays with fire but no unnecessary sparks...