Word: laboredness
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There was no getting around it: Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County was what the nonliterary citizen would call a raw book and decidedly not for the high-school youngsters. One of its six short stories had 20 more or less detailed descriptions of sexual intercourse. But Memoirs...
His medical studies in France three decades ago, and his French wife, had taught him much of Western culture. When he had returned to Indo-China he had successfully blended two careers: Occidental medicine and Oriental rice-growing. He had labored to preserve the best of both East and West...
In a small shop near Manhattan's Co lumbus Circle last week, a few dozen workmen labored overtime, winding coils and wiring circuits for hand-built radio-phonographs.
Practice & Faith. Warren Austin was not what the world generally considered a typical American. He appeared reticent, formal, gentle, oldfashioned, a man of controlled emotions and clear purposes. He was born in 1877 in Highgate Center (pop. 500 at the time), among the green, hard hills of Vermont. He read...
Parliament gave little indication of going all the way with M.P. Lindsay, but Britain last week seemed as anxious as most of the other victorious nations to hang on to its war prisoners. More than 14 months after the war's end, some seven million Germans and Japs were...