Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Beginning next week the 45,000 U. S. post offices will distribute to noncitizens some 5,000,000 sample questionnaires in six key languages-Italian, German, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Yiddish. Two weeks later the four-month registration period will commence at 7,500 first and second class post offices. There aliens will be fingerprinted, answer the Department's 15 probing queries. Most pertinent item reads: "Within the past 5 years I (have, have not) been affiliated with or active in (a member of, official of, a worker for) organizations devoted in whole or in part to influencing or furthering...
Some meat cuts were still a rarity last week but better-class German restaurants included snails, lobster, frogs' legs, crabs, trout and caviar in their menus while promising their customers succulent Schweinebraten and Wiener Schnitzel to be carved from one million Danish pigs and 10,000 cattle condemned for slaughter because of a fodder shortage. Supplies from Denmark and Holland increased the butter ration from three to four ounces weekly and egg eaters received three to four more eggs monthly. Markets displayed fewer kinds and smaller quantities of green vegetables than last summer, but there were constant promises...
Burglars. Targets for the Gangsters and other parashots will be a new class of parachute troops announced by Germany last week, trained to land on city housetops, equipped with burglar tools to break in, silken ropes down which to slide to the ground. They carry kernels of concentrated soot to make their own smoke screens while descending and after landing. Germany's "sealing" of the Maginot Line district last week, as well as the areas facing Britain, was interpreted as a precaution to keep prying eyes from seeing these burglars and other special troops at practice on new wrinkles...
...pocket. He first sought shelter with a farmer whose daughter he eventually married. Someone persuaded him to enter the University of Washington. He worked his way through the school of electrical engineering, putting in eight hours a day as a power station operator, graduated at the top of his class, became an assistant professor...
...rescue from oblivion only the most available, most familiar things. She writes about the new car, Christmas shopping, the last day of the holidays, the first day of spring, a visit to a country house, where she has occasion to reflect on "the sound of a pack of upper-class English voices in full cry," and to be grateful for a rescuing Colonel Blimp. "Thank God for colonels, thought Mrs. Miniver; sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless controversy into comfortable monologue: there was nothing in the world so restful as a really good English colonel...