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...Norte y Sur. Through the intricate details of Persons and Places, and by way of them, the vitality of the Spanish-American heritage glows through the supple prose. The 262 pages of the book (another volume is to appear, and war conditions interfered with this one) are packed with accounts of life in Harvard, written with mellow good humor, of the philosophy department, written rather perfunctorily, of the Lampoon, Boston Latin School, and, ceaselessly in each new scene, the effective contrasts of the old world and the new, and the pain that was suffered by the people of sensitivity...
Aircraft Repair and Storage Depots: Severe damage to two of the largest depots-Méaulte and Romilly-sur-Seine; heavy damage to repair shops at Antwerp, Brussels, Le Bourget, Meulan-les-Mureaux, Nantes; considerable damage to the Gnôme-et-Rhône plant at Le Mans; light damage to Paris' Hispano-Suiza plant, destruction to Paris' Caudron Renault shop; Villacoublay was marked "most severe...
...five days she lay under water, sur facing cautiously, at night. On the after noon of June 10 the Clyde's commander sighted a target that made the strain worth enduring: a German pocket battle ship and a cruiser. She lost them. Early the next morning she sighted another huge enemy ship - beyond her reach. For nine days more the Clyde searched and found empty sea. She had now been at sea for three weeks. The 50 men of her crew were grim, bitter, tense. They could not smoke, waited in fixed dullness when the Clyde was submerged, chewed...
...terribly frightened. I heard the planes but could not see them. Then sud denly the sky became intensely bright. There were torrents of fire from the sky. It seemed as though vessels of flowing fire had been overturned in the heavens. Streams of fire reached the earth and sur rounded the flaming houses. I understood they were phosphorous canisters. The effects were terrible: house after house was set aflame...
Sikaiana stories were not harmed in the least by the fact that relatively little is known of the Stewart group. In peacetime only schooners in the copra trade call there. Sikaiana, one and a quarter miles long, is the largest of the five islands sur rounding a broad lagoon. But even its exact geographical location is disputed: A 1933 report indicated that it lies some 13 miles east of where the charts show...