Word: text
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blades cut to one a week for each shaver. Out cropped a lush, thickety growth of feature stories and beard pictures; the Smith Brothers sprouted back into the news; radio comics combed their files frantically for beard jokes, from B for beavers, to T for tuft. But the full text of WPB's order proved the best joke of all. As late as 1940 one blade a week per man was all the nation used anyway...
...their country by airplane and parachute from Russia or Britain. Aided by radio, the handicapped newspapers have given remarkable coverage. Within a week after a Winston Churchill review of the war and a London address by Polish Premier General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Szaniec (Rampart) of Warsaw carried the full text of both speeches...
...gained for Harvard a nationwide reputation, but when this emphasis is carried into the University's first aid courses unfortunate results are to be expected. The setting of a broken arm requires more practical experience than the bookish knowledge of an "absent-minded professor," and the use of a text written before the war will hardly help the training of a group which aims to aid civilians in the event of air-raids...
Revised most recently in 1937 the present Red Cross text contains little information applicable to war injuries and war conditions, while the shortage of instructors with practical experience combines with unnecessary emphasis on non-war injuries, like snake-bite, to give the course an irrelevant turn not conducive to student interest...
Down Mexico Way managed to be primer-like but not too cute. An offer to send the text of its songs in Spanish and English drew 1,700 letters last week. Students of Spanish could take heart from the fact that its Mexican tone was achieved by an Irish-born script writer (McDonagh), a Canadian-born director (Corday), and a cast whose ingenue (Gould) was born & bred in Manhattan...