Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FLORENCE WHITE-Will Oursler-Simon & Schuster ($2). The girl secretary of a Manhattan aircraft executive, having done time on a framed-up theft charge, is accused of killing her ex-office mate. Two keen lawyers take up cudgels for her, unearth another and very grisly murder, and by swift thinking and quick action bring the well-tangled plot to a satisfactory solution...
When the program spread to the other Houses, Adams House Sales Manager Richard N. Swift '44 was put in charge of all sales, and the total program was taken under the auspices of the War Service Committee. The seven Houses were divided into two groups, the first group consisting of Adams, Eliot, Leverett, and Winthrop, the other of Dunster, Kirkland, and Lowell Houses. Phillips Brooks House continues to supply the capital with which the stamps are bought from STAMP SALES--HOUSES 7/16 7/23 7/30 Adams $54.55 $40.80 $53.50 Eliot 15.75 5.60 41.75 Leverett 23.65 35.00 52.30 Winthrop...
...threat was still not imminent in days, or possibly even in weeks. But there was another threat. On Crete, held out of the great Rommel circus in the desert, were 250,000 German airborne troops, carefully trained by the parachute-glider expert, Lieut. General Kurt Student, for a swift thrust. Egypt, the Levant, the fat oil fields of Iraq were within their range. The United Nations, recognizing the threat, poured planes and men up from Suez and Basra. The U.S. pulled its crack airman, Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, out of India, put him in command of its Middle East...
...Plus. Tallied by U.S. forces in that time were three Jap destroyers and one transport sunk; four cruisers, three destroyers, a gunboat and another transport damaged; seven enemy aircraft, possibly several others, destroyed. Any Japanese plan for a swift knockout blow to the main U.S. naval base in Alaska had been thwarted. But though Alaska stood firm, it was at a price...
...imagination of mankind" which gives them their strong mythical enchantment. Nevertheless, some readers may find it hard to agree that Huckleberry Finn is "as dark a book as Moby Dick" still harder to agree that its bitterest lines-Huck's meditation on slavery-excel the best of Jonathan Swift. But discerning critics will be grateful for DeVoto's evaluation of the heroic role of Jim, for his mapping of the streaks of cruelty and abject, indigenous meanness which are too easily overlooked in the broad morning sunlight of Mark Twain's unliterary prose. They will also...