Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coming of the King." The general store-a narrow, yellowing building which had been the railroad station in the days when trains still stopped at America-was in the center of America's Christmas rush. In a financial sense, it wasn't much of a store-its owner, Walter Schnaare, had long since given up trying to make a living out of it and had gotten a job upriver at Cairo (rhymes with faro). But it was, nevertheless, a great institution in America-a club and forum, and a source for almost anything America's housewives...
Cannon at Saratoga. The editorial ended on an odd and not entirely accurate note: "We want to remind American parliamentarians that the big, friendly American republic still owes us 2,000,000 gold pounds, 216 bronze cannon, 29 mortars, 12,806 cannon balls, 30,000 rifles with bayonets and 30,000 uniforms-the uniforms that Washington's men wore after Valley Forge and the cannons that won the Battle of Saratoga.* It is thanks to these rifles and cannon that Messrs. Pfeifer and Zablocki and Gordon are American "Congressmen today...
...week's end, 14 days after he had received the selection board's revised list, the President still had taken no action on it. Under the circumstances, however, there was little he could do but approve it. For doing his assigned job well and in complete obedience to the orders of his superiors, 31-Knot Burke, for the first time in his 26-year career, had been stopped cold...
...temptations. The only access to books not encased in glass is in the reading room--its door is kept locked at all times except when released by a switch from the circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says he has only had to stop one person--a freshman who wandered...
...paper's legal advisers prepared a brief after ominous silence from the Justice Department left the issue unclear. CRIMSON Editors had wired Attorney General J. Howard McGrath on the legality of the anti-drought program, and still had no reply by press-time...