Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daily rations 300 grams [about twelve ounces] of bread, 300 rice, 160 wheat plus potatoes, sweet potatoes, green vegetables, fish, eggs, etc. Total 3,200 calories. Meat, sugared food and, in this season, fruits are rather rare. Young and active prisoners are losing weight; old and idle prisoners gain weight...
...Religious services conducted by minister, who also is prisoner. Two hundred prisoners work voluntarily to clear nearby hill for potatoes, sweet potatoes, wheat. Satisfied with work. Paid 60 to 90 sen a day, according to rank. Necessary work in camp paid...
...following evening, at Mary Baldwin-College for Women, Staunton, Virginia, the Sodality will present as its main feature Debussy's "Blessed Damozel." Winding up its tour on Wednesday, at Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia, it will join the Sweet Briar and Duke Glee Clubs in a presentation of Handel's "Messiah...
...withal. Its pop tune arrangements, of which there aren't very many right now, are played with apathetic carelessness. A colored band of that kind just can't get excited about whether I want to walk with or without you, and working for that Glenn Miller gloss on the sweet numbers seems a waste of time to them...
...ideas of his century in a country where those ideas brought prison and poverty, finally excommunication. He fought for "freedom of the press, first, last and forever, compulsory free education, religious liberty, liberty of speech and universal franchise, and naturally, almost as a result of these things, justice, sweet justice, for everybody, regardless of race, class, creed or color." He was sometimes taken in by leaders like Santa Ana, but never for long. His wits were "intransigent and not for sale," and though he was afraid to die, "he was not afraid to suffer a long, miserable existence...