Word: backe
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...past month a group of six hardy astronomers has travelled the fifty miles to Oak Ridge and back every clear night. The thirty-odd eight by ten inch photographic plates which they take each night will not have been completely studied for a year or more, but some results of interest have already been found...
...France and Germany these days they are trying to receive the family with laws and slogans. "Travail, Famille, Patrie!" cries Marshal Petain. "Kinder, Kirche, Kuchen!" goes for the German hausfrau. Family sense has always been important in these countries, and they usually fall back upon it in a time of crisis, when it gives them strength...
...convention as a delegate of the HSU. On the contrary the Student Union invites to its discussions all students, of whatever policy, who wish to unite in fighting the present hysterical trend towards a blind entry into the European war. The Union is trying, not to turn its back on the crisis, but to evolve a program of domestic and foreign policy which will insure that civil liberties and social legislation are preserved and extended in America; and that America's weight in foreign affairs will be thrown rationally and intelligently on the side of world democracy and peace...
...bitter Jerome Weidman pieces, Irwin Shaw's savage "Sailor off the Bremen" and the incredibly sinister "Wet Saturday" of John Collier. One explanation--perhaps minor, but none the less interesting--suggests itself: the collection represents fifteen and a half years, in that some of the stories actually go back to 1925; but the bulk of the material was published between 1934 or '35 and 1940. The second world war is in several of the stories, and touches many more. This is literature of the generation born a little too late to be lost...
...impact of the innovation in arrangement is being compared to that which occurred on the fateful day in 1935 when the book came out entited "catalog," with no "gue" ending. The spelling reform, however, didn't work out too well, and the final "no" was back on the cover the following year...