Word: text
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in this text-&-camera picture of contemporary life in the cotton States. Erskine Caldwell observes: "The South has always been shoved around like a country cousin. It buys mill-ends and wears hand-me-downs. ... It is that dogtown on the other side of the railroad tracks that smells so badly every time I he wind changes." Mindful of the "bad smells"* that have come from the South recently, and with an avowed pro-underdog bias. Author Caldwell and Photographer Bourke-White went down to look things over. After a year and a half of investigation they returned with...
...asking themselves this question for the past three months. Knowing that Joseph Stalin in his youth was educated for the Orthodox priesthood, knowing that the Dictator has proclaimed the new Soviet Constitution to be. "The Most Democratic in the World" (TIME, Sept. 27 et ante), and having only the text of the Constitution itself to guide them, these thousands of Soviet officials have not known whether to believe their eyes...
...atmosphere has beclouded every novel of the Cape Colony, from Olive Schreiner's Story Of An African Farm on down. Swift, even melodramatic though The Turning Wheels is, many a reader will come an early cropper over words like baas, kopje, kloof, veldt, mevrou, spruit* with which its text is besprinkled, over the de Jongs, Zwart Pietes, van der Bergs, van Reenens who make up its confusing cast of characters. But once these obstacles are hurdled, the surviving reader can settle down to a solidly written, if a little protracted, account of pioneer hardship and leather-breeched love...
...lateness of the hour at which the Council's report was received, and its length which runs to two full columns, the CRIMSON cannot print the complete text tonight. The full text of the report will be printed in tomorrow's CRIMSON...
...John T. Fisher had cause to ponder the value of religion as a deterrent to misbehavior. Last August when A. K. Patterson, 20, was haled before Magistrate Fisher for speeding, the jurist sentenced the youth to attend Sunday School for 13 weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text of the Sunday School lesson in Magistrate Fisher's chambers. Five days after he had delivered his 13th report to the gratified magistrate, who by that time had received many a letter praising him for his enlightened act, Speeder Patterson was again brought into court, this time charged with...