Word: unevennesses
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...disjointed procurement policy . . . has resulted in hoarding and freezing unused doctors in the American armed forces. . . . This uneven procurement threatens doctor famines in vast rural areas with the probability of a general epidemic similar to the influenza conditions...
...goal has been low-priced opera for mass audiences. In its 30 seasons it has played 9,000 times to 19,000,000 people; and except for its first year, when it lost $700, it has made money. Though its performances some-times creak, and its singing is as uneven as a stockmarket graph, it has kept a wide public happy...
...funny as Mark Twain, as exalted as Melville, as solid as Joyce and as dull as Dreiser; but he has never done a book which has the sure, sound permanence of any of these men. Go Down, Moses, like most of Faulkner, is brilliant and uneven. Its special value is its evocative (though local) exploration of the U.S. national source and dawn. In it is a sometimes merely yeasty, sometimes 100-proof sense of those powers and mysteries of land and the people on it which make a nation...
...Philippines. He had been a major general, commanding one of the first Flying Fortress units in the Pacific, since July 11. He fought through the bitter days of plane losses on the ground and in the air to overwhelming Jap numbers. At last, after three weeks of uneven battle, rather than lose his remaining Fortresses and crews, he took them to Java...
...Author. The Foreigners is an excellent introduction to China and her people in war & peace. It also introduces a distinctly talented if uneven new writer. Preston Schoyer left Yale in 1933 determined never to do a lick of work if he could possibly help it. Nevertheless, for two years he taught and coached at Yale-in-China. After graduate work at Yale in Oriental studies, he spent another year writing short stories in Manhattan. In 1938 he returned to wartime China...