Word: stoutness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers' wives, picked by Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife as representatives of the nation, were determined that, as far as they could manage it, the helter-skelter, out-of-kilter of World War I should not happen again. With stout good sense, they therefore agreed that...
ALPHABET HICKS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehort ($2). Clever alibi-busting by wily ex-lawyer detective clears up murders in a plastics laboratory near New York. Hicks is a worthy addition to the Stout sleuth-stable (other occupants: Nero Wolfe, Tecumseh...
...Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...
...William Agar, Roger Baldwin '05, Ulric Bell, Stephen Vincent Benet, Bruce Bliven, Van Wyck Brooks '08, David Dubinsky, Clark Eichelberger, Hon. Thomas H. Eliot '28, John Farrar, Carl J. Friedrich Professor of Government, Harry D. Gideonse, Hans Kohn, Max Lerner, Francis E. McMahon, William A. Neilson '99, Rex Stout, Herbert Bayard Swope, Sr., and Henry P. Van Dusen...
Detroit's William B. Stout, an aeronautical engineer whose visions have often come to pass, observed last week...