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...guffawed the Professor in the fluent style of prose which had made his treatises on relativity and the sixth dimension a delight to read, "I likes dis mode of--life." ("What phraseology," murmured La Flange; "Divine," shrieked Laverne...
White will be the attire at all official functions, but on occassions where semi-formal civilian dress is in mode, service dress blue, D, can be donned, unless otherwise directed. A turned down collar or standing wing collar may be used when service dress blue, D, is prescribed...
Fictional explorations into the historic past have been a striking feature of U.S. writing in the last decade. Said Hervey Allen last week: "It's probably time to come out and say, without being egotistic, that Anthony Adverse started the mode for the modern historical novel." Added he: "If you will look back over a long period of time, you will see that what the public likes most is a rich, large package. I have never streamlined a book to suit an audience...
...England Council. Such State assistance and control would never have been approved by the Founding Fathers he declared; the plan negates all opportunities for the individual. And President Wriston characterized the plan as "the product of men who had lived intimately with depression. It is cast in the mode of thought of a materialistic age, a time of pessimism, years of retreat, of minds hesitant and doubtful...
Doctrine. What made airmen sad was that that was the only recognition made by the Hero of Bataan of war's newest mode of fighting. Douglas MacArthur's conclusion was that with the help of air transport, reconnaissance and bombardment the advance of U.S. fighting men up through the island bases to Japan could be vastly speeded...