Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petite Eve Curie, newly installed as Chief of the Feminine Section of the Ministry of Information, made it very plain to the press that most French women, unlike their British sisters, have no time for flossy uniforms, showy organizations. From the French point of view, the fact that Britain still has less than 1,000,000 men under arms, whereas France has more than 5,000,000, means that as yet British women simply have no idea of what war can mean in feminine sacrifice and struggle to support home and children while father holds the Maginot Line...
...larger organization of this kind is Defense Passive, a corps of women who, if there ever are any air raids, will drive ambulances and help drag the wounded out of smashed buildings. Some Defense Passives have already bought long, brown, gas-proof capes with yellow scarves, but most are still thriftily hesitating to uniform themselves. Just now they are "practicing," driving about at night in completely lightless ambulances to hypothetical bomb spots...
Except for a few games still to be played here & there, the U. S. college football season ended last week. Reviewing the season, most football students agreed that the No. 1 team of 1939 was Tennessee, undefeated, untied, unscored-on in nine games, while it rolled up a total of 205 points. Close on its cleated heels were Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College (Southwest Conference champion) and Cornell (pride of the Ivy League), both undefeated and untied, but scored-on. Powerful Southern California, undefeated but tied by Oregon, has yet to play the University of California at Los Angeles before...
When the "locomotive of history" (Lenin's phrase) took its latest "sharp turn" and thundered dizzily onto that marvel of engineering, the Soviet-Nazi trestle, many a U. S. liberal got train-sick, made ready to leap. But not all. Last week some churchmen still sat in the Pullman, even while the locomotive of history rattled past the unlovely view of bombs raining on Finland...
From the world's highest-placed ecclesiastical friend of Soviet Russia, white-thatched Very Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, nothing was heard last week about Finland. Two months ago he was still lolling in the club car behind the locomotive of history. Said the gaitered dean then: ". . . Communism has recovered the essential form ' of the real belief in God, which organized Christianity, as it is now, has so largely lost...