Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador Winant found it easier to fathom his feelings about the U.S. attitude toward war than about Britain's chances. He was obviously depressed by the U.S. attitude. U.S. citizens talked a lot about British morale. They did not understand that Britons who could keep a stiff upper lip in their own defeats were disheartened by news which the U.S. took for granted. It shocked them to learn that American automobile production, in the first three months of 1941, was up almost 20% over the same period of 1940-for Britons had learned the fatal cost of neglecting...
...Baron Max von Oppenheim, 81, who has been snooping around the Near East since 1893. Born of a Cologne banking family, short, fat, bouncy, shoe-button-eyed, he has agreeable manners and an Arctic mustache. A crack archeologist, he discovered and dug up at Tell Halaf in Upper Mesopotamia (now Iraq) a temple-palace stuffed with nightmarish, colossal statuary carved by the Subaraeans, a people flourishing around 3500 B.C. Off & on, the digging continued for more than 18 years: his treasures were split between museums in Berlin and Aleppo...
China's Army lies, and has lain for nearly two and a half years, on a tortured 2,000-mile chain of fronts from the Yellow River to the upper end of the Burma Road. The history of that chain of fronts is unique and anachronistic in World War II-there for 30 weary months has been positional warfare. China's foremost philosopher-apologist, Lin Yutang, wrote last week: "If Japan was able to report gains almost every month, why is it that in the last two and a half years Japan has made a total advance...
...drunk on his own words. In consequence, much of his later verse (notably his brilliantly loquacious Autumn Journal} is lively but devitalizing reading. It contains humorous, tender and thoughtful patches; but for the most part it reveals an ugly picture of a man writing with a stiff, long upper lip and a flaccid heart...
...Freshman boat will open Regatta Day at 10:30 o'clock in the upper two mile downstream row of two miles. In spite of their unpretentious showing to date the Crimson cubs are no weak unit, and have been given a better than 50-50 chance to turn back the Yale cubs...