Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John S. Sumner, mild-mannered successor to the late, rabid Anthony Corn-stock as secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, blew off a bit of steam after reading D. H. Lawrence's The First Lady Chatterley* (TIME, March 27). He discovered "obscene" passages on 92 pages of the book, prodded police to seize the 398 copies in its publisher's stockroom. Said Dial Press Publisher George W. Joel: Not one of "approximately sixty reviews . . . mentioned any obscenity. As a matter of fact, we consider it very tame...
...Brixham's whitewashed houses climb the red sandstone cliffs above Tor Bay, patient Devon fishermen mend their nets and watch for signs that offshore fishing is again allowed. Napoleon paused at Brixham on his way to St. Helena. Brixham fishermen were among the last to abandon sail for steam, but claim to have been the first to find the teeming Dogger Bank in the Bay of Biscay...
Around Land's End, in sleepy little Camborne by Tintagel, where men say King Arthur was born, a dour Cornishman sat at the foot of a weathered statue. It is a likeness of Richard Trevithick, who harnessed steam so well that he, not Thomas Watt, really launched the industrial revolution. In a turn of phrase the men of Cornwall have used for centuries, the Cornishman broke a bit of news to a neighbor: "Tomorrow, I'm going out to England...
Landing. The surprise achieved by MacArthur was complete. The large force had feinted toward Palau, then reversed itself at night to steam southward into Hollandia. Other feints had been made toward Madang and Wewak, Jap-held bases in Australian New Guinea, where enemy forces had been concentrated, perhaps in expectation of the attack...
...Faculties, and particularly departments, without any control by competent educational dietitians, were encouraged to multiply the dishes on the steam table of the educational cafeteria. No wonder the helpless victims suffered all manner of educational dyspepsia and malnutrition...