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...Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas City, wrapped papers for the Star, clerked in a bank and rose to bookkeeper at $115 a month. Suddenly he returned to his father's farm, and stayed there for ten years. His mother, now 91, says he could plow the straightest row of corn she ever...
...polls for an election like that which the U.S. looks forward to in 1944: to pick a leader to hold office for a period (three years) that most Australians believe will take them out of war and into the peace. Australians are looking for politicians who show them the straightest path to victory...
Although the Government had said it would grant exemptions to women with American diplomats sat listening in the gallery. It was the strongest, straightest expression of Hemisphere solidarity to come from Latin America since the Havana Conference. Said Dr. Padilla: "It is the destiny of America to fight, and the Mexican people are determined to share this destiny. We must therefore prepare to cooperate ardently, not in aggression but in defense of this hemisphere, to preserve it as the example and hope of world fraternity and justice...
...curtain raiser for the huskers was a plowman's match, an innovation on the program, held on the neighboring Denger farm. The straightest furrows, the neatest turns with a tractor-drawn plow were made by Fred Timbers, who had traveled from Ontario to show what Canadian farmers could do. Fred Timbers became the first international champion of plowmen...
...quite as plausible as highly intelligent satire need be. In his hands, too, it is the excuse and occasion for the things he particularly wants to talk about. Scattered in short (but stiff) doses throughout the narrative, they are spoken by a Mr. Propter, the straightest and maturest straight man Mr. Huxley has ever permitted himself. As he speaks them, they are some of the firmest, most beautifully articulate essays Huxley has ever written...