Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War II is a vastly different business for Australia than its predecessor. It not only means sending troops halfway round the world to defend the Empire. It also means standing solid guard at home. There are now no reassuringly big Royal Navy battleships in Southern Pacific waters, and Japan, once an ally, is now a member of the Axis. Thus last week Australia was engaged in her greatest war effort, involving what many of her citizens called an "industrial revolution...
...just the same his solid, simple phrase had brought assurance of a kind; it was an old-fashioned Yankee yardstick. Franklin Roosevelt might be morally right in saying that the silly, foolish dollar sign must be taken off aid-to-Britain, but Jesse Jones touched an old American feeling that there is righteousness in sound business...
...script, later hiring witty, pink-cheeked Donald Ogden Stewart to furnish additional dialogue. This battery developed a smooth, efficient screen play from Morley's novel, preserving every pound of his pathos and adding a few ounces more of their own. They open with Kitty accepting the proposal of solid, reliable Dr. Mark Eisen (James Craig). As Kitty is packing for the elopement, they bring in Wyn Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan), Kitty's socialite ex-husband from Philadelphia. Wyn wants Kitty to run off to South America with him that night. The catch is he can't remarry...
Aiming at a "solid knowledge of one thing and as general a background as possible" for concentrators, divisional examinations and tutorial work have been completely reorganized by the English department...
Over the past Christmas vacation, two important youth groups met in annual convention--the International Student Service and the American Student Union. The clear result of the meetings was that there is no "solid and determined peace movement" as far as youth is concerned. Last fall's split between the aid-to-Britain Harvard Liberal Union and the no-aid HSU bloomed in all its ominous vigor on the national scene. True, both groups stated their opposition to American entrance into the war, but their differences of opinion on methods for keeping out have successfully broken any united front...