Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Noon is not a great novel nor one that a wide public will at once admire. But it is a work of art with more than one dimension. As a parable, for example, it offers food for thought to those who have sight but waste it. As a tract it is a severe corrective to the mindlessness of the D. H. Lawrence preachings on sex. As Elizabeth Bowen says, "the disabusedness, and the absence of conflict, make this un-English writing"; as she does not say, they make it something like French writing. And this un-Englishness...
...Little Oklahoma has become East Salinas, unincorporated, with a population of some 6,000, half of them former migrants. The original Hebbron tract has become Hebbron Heights with new stucco or brightly painted five-room frame houses crowding out vestiges of the old tar-paper shacks...
Chief medical advocate of the "safe period" in the U. S. is Dr. Leo John Latz of Chicago, author of a sugary little tract called The Rhythm. Endorsed by the Catholic Church, the book, usually sold with "Concip Calendar," went through six editions, sold over 200,000 copies in eight years...
...retained 100 picturesque acres in the heart of Memphis-one half being virgin woods with massive oaks 250 years old. As additional compensation to us, the State and City built a scenic parkway through our tract 100 ft. wide, ¾ mile long, complete in every detail, costing them $175,000. So Old Tom didn't lose much of his family's inheritance by the tax litigations after...