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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compels respect, he is seldom liked. Moreover, his faculties, shaped for heroic feats, despise the pliability, the intrigues and the parade through which most brilliant careers are achieved in peacetime. And so he would be condemned to emasculation or corruption, if he lacked the grim impulse of ambition to spur him on. It is not, to be sure, that the passion for rank and honors, which is only careerism, possess him, but it is beyond doubt the hope of playing a great role in great events...
Boston University's hopes for victory today may rest with the shrewdness of Buff Donelli, but aiding him in his difficult task are three assistant coaches, two of them newly imported this year to spur on the B.U. athletic renaissance...
...billion gallons of water. The Seine river, which fed it, was diverted by digging away 2,000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock for a new channel, and by constructing a system of dams and tunnels. The Canadian Government chipped in $5,200,000 for roads, a railway spur, power lines and a dock at Port Arthur to handle the ore. In 1944, a year after work was started, the first ore came out of the open pits...
...fact that there is an abundance of crime to report, is played down. There is considerable criticism of the arts. The rest of the printed news consists almost entirely of stories that are 1) admonitory (general and often specific criticism of conditions in the Soviet Union), 2) exhortatory (to spur desirable activities like 'the proper service of customers in communal dining rooms'), 3) panegyrical (eulogizing Stalin...
...Army & Navy are pumping men and millions of dollars into the Territory. At Mile 26 on the Richardson Highway near Fairbanks, the Army is rushing construction of one of the world's biggest airfields-a super super-bomber base with three-mile runways. The Army is building a spur rail line to serve the base, is pouring concrete barracks at Elmendorf Field, improving Ladd Field, repairing installations at Nome. At Adak and Attu in the Aleutians, the Navy is spending $14 million on construction...