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Your reviewer also said "The Fight for Life runs for only 30 minutes." The Fight for Life contains 57 minutes of music, the longest continuous symphonic score that has ever, to my knowledge, been used in a motion picture. The picture itself runs the usual approximate length of a feature-68½ minutes...
...industrial mobilization-but not without the grinding of many a gear. With 1,200,000 men in the army, with armament factories booming, Britain still has unemployment. Thus the major question of War II at the half-year mark remained not so much which economy could take it longest, but could the Allies organize effectively for total war? In his speech last week, Mr. Lloyd George loosely said that Great Britain had 6,000,000 less tons of ships than in War I and that Germany was sinking them twice as fast as in the first six months...
Result is a book that rescues Coolidge from more than one depression-inspired stigma; will certainly evoke a few nostalgic memories. But to call Calvin Coolidge a definitive biography is only a euphemism. Of no U. S. President has the definitive biography been written, including Washington, longest dead. Of Coolidge least of all-a President whose character baffled millions-is it likely that either the last fact or the last interpretation has been turned...
...wrote Mr. Lippmann in his column, it was his resolution, introduced in July, which prepared the way for the abrogation of the 1911 treaty with Japan-"the longest step on the road to war that the U. S. has taken since President Wilson announced in 1915 that he would hold the German Government to strict accountability for its acts...
...that Men of Good Will "is the Comedie Humaine of and for the 20th Century." Tired critics and trustful critics have divided over the question whether the finished job (in 27 volumes, as planned) will rank as one of the great novels of modern times or merely as the longest...