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...happening in Europe, not to the armies perhaps, but to the people. There will be no exhortations and no pleas to "give till it hurts." This is a time when exhortation and pleas will do little to arouse the public. It is the eloquent facts of Europe's woe which should speak for themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR RELIEF | 11/12/1940 | See Source »

...this afternoon starting at 2 o'clock it may be a different story. No Hutchinson--no MacLeod.--That is the cry of woe which the releases from New Hampshire are screaming. The team is potentially a powerhouse with a line that in spots is the equal of any team in the Ivy League with two obvious exceptions. Coach Earl Blaik, in fact, hasn't been worrying too much about his line during the past week; he's been hunting all over the hilly terrain of Hanover for a climax runner, a runner with speed, a runner who can break loose...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: VARSITY OUT TO CRACK INDIAN'S SEVEN YEAR STREAK | 10/26/1940 | See Source »

...story of the period between 1636 and 1640 is a tale of woe, for Natheniel Eaton was not all he was cracked up to be, and his wife's cooking was even worse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1940 SEEN AS REAL HARVARD TERCENTENARY YEAR, NOT '36 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

TUMBLEWEEDS-Marta Roberts-Putnam ($2.50). This sympathetic study of simple, pious, maternal Concha Garcia subjects her strong spirit to much woe and a strange, alien world of Norteamericanos. By page two the reader suspects that Peón Pedro Garcia will lose his California section-gang job. But by chapter two the reader finds that there is little Steinbeck in this chronicle of adversity: Faith in the Saints supports Mama Garcia in preserving her Pedro's self-respect, her large brood's health and virtue. Pedro lacks Faith, succumbs to relief, gin, a jalopy. So Concha leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...Woe is me, Oh, woe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Woe Is Me | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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