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...Baby Penny Diana did have a knowing look about her. But other doctors at Los Angeles' Methodist Hospital found it incredible that Mrs. Hunter had been pregnant 375 days (instead of the normal 280) before her baby was born there last week; 375 days would be the longest pregnancy on record, topping the runner-up by about 58 days...
That is why, in accepting responsibility for policing Europe, the G.I. has made one step toward political maturity. The next step-deciding on the means of doing it-is more complex. But the first step was the longest from the prejudices of his past...
Turbulent and clear in its headwaters, the Missouri changes its character after its junction with the turbid waters of the Yellowstone, changes again as it meanders through the prairies to earn its nickname of "Big Muddy" and empty at last into the Mississippi ten miles above St. Louis. The longest U.S. river (2,470 miles), it is also one of the most dangerous in flood. Forever seeking its lost channel (it once flowed north to Hudson Bay), the Missouri is also the hungriest of U.S. rivers, with a yearly menu of "ten thousand acres of good rich farming land, several...
Prodigious Silence. All day and through the evening we drove down the road toward Kwangsi. Refugees flanked us in unbroken columns. This was the tail end of one of the longest treks in the history of the China war. I had seen these refugees start their march five months before on the dusty roads of Hunan, where the sun leeched sweat from every pore, where human bodies and the fields about them were parched moistureless. Now, 600 miles away, these refugees were still trudging-the friendless, the halt and the sick-overtaken by the merciless blast of the Kweichow winter...
...attempt to achieve this goal is in its nature the greatest of economic adventures. For good or ill, 1944 is likely to leave a permanent impression on the course of American affairs because it was the year in which each of four short documents (the longest of them only 48 printed pages) attempted to trace an outline* of means to attain permanent full employment. All four of the proposals, two from the U.S., two from Britain, acknowledged implicitly or explicitly a revolution in economic thinking that has been in progress since the depression: the belief that the state-and only...