Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spelling classes will learn to spell (and define) drag, lift, stratosphere, bomber...
...make you famous!" More typical of today, Author Ewen thinks, is Jose Iturbi's story of how he found the radio of a roadside lunch-wagon tuned to a Sunday evening symphony. The clatter melted into silence as customers, dishwashers, waitresses succumbed to the music's spell. But the counterman wasn't satisfied. "He scowled at four hamburgers sizzling on the griddle and carefully removed them...
Year later the straits of his family called him back to Cedar Rapids where, in a 10-by-16-ft. shack built with his own hands, they weathered a winter of near starvation. For seven years, following a spell as a soldier in World War I, he taught art in Iowa public schools, saving his pennies for a trip to Paris, where all U.S. artists thought they...
...were to be evacuated, or that they would get help. But while the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East were on their feet the fight would go on, blackly determined in action, flecked with the fine gold of good American humor when it got a breathing spell...
...Cover) In Rio de Janeiro this week U.S. diplomacy faces its first severe test since World War II came to the Americas. It is a test that may spell victory or defeat in the war. For as Japanese diplomatic treachery on war's eve cost the U.S. the first round of the Battle of the Pacific, so a setback at Rio might well lead to discord in the hemisphere, Axis inroads, even defeat in the Battle of the Atlantic...