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...each type of soil and climate in the eastern U.S. and which have increased the yield per acre from 11.5 bushels (1924-27) to 18.7 bushels (1937-40). Among the 2,500 varieties are Huang-tou, Manchu, Ito San and Hahto; Lexington, Tarheel Black, Illini, Wilson and Roosevelt-a vivid index to the Asiatic heritage and U.S. adoption of the plant...
...human and real as a nightmare is this first-hand account of the Fall of France by a soldier of the French Army. That enormous and intricate catastrophe might have cramped the hand of a Tolstoi. Hans Habe, previously a minor novelist, has turned it into the most vivid book World War II has yet produced. He tells nothing he did not see with his own eyes. But he saw the disintegration of a great people...
...most part orderly people who do not like to have their well made-up minds unmade about such matters as the real character of Julius Caesar. Ferrero was upsetting. Moreover, he was not dull. Beginning with his five-volume The Grandeur and Decadence of Rome, he made the past vivid for people who had never voluntarily read history in their lives...
...From the moment I left Moscow to the moment I got back I did not see a single sign of refugees anywhere. . . . After the vivid memories of Belgium and France, this was most heartening...
...Foxes' attempt to sell a bill of indictment of small-time capitalism along with its astringent drama does not come off so well. The characters are so clearly black or white that they are too vivid for real life. But this does not keep a Southern lady's melodrama, aided and abetted by Gregg Toland's talented camera craft, from being a memorable portrait of greed. Regina and her wretched relatives possess the fascination of rattlesnakes courting in a bathtub...