Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News accounts were unable to keep pace with the Anglo-American invasion that took French Morocco and Algeria in 76 hours-and moved into Tunisia in 76 more. An attack and quick counterattack near Bizerte was the first clash of arms...
...sure, many changes of detail and emphasis have taken place. The course bears small resemblance to its leisurely counterpart of as little as three years ago. The Harvard unit has been among the leaders in conversion to a war-time pace. But all the grimness of purpose and streamlining of subject matter must necessarily be built upon a basic contradiction, and are therefore invalid as a final plan. The man who once left Harvard with a degree in his pocket and gold bars on his shoulders was by training three-quarters a college graduate and one-quarter a trained officer...
Just when these changes will actually begin to hit the University members was not apparent yesterday. The supply of coffee, which is a week by week affair, may keep up at the present pace, or it may be suddenly cut off. The restaurateurs feel that their immediate future will be decided by government installation of a rationing system similar to the sugar one. This is the only way they think that they can be assured of a state supply of their most profitable beverage...
...more tortuous course. The course: pay milk distributors a direct subsidy so that retail prices can be kept down. In New York City alone the subsidy already amounts to about $15,000 a day-and it will have to be doubled this month if it is to keep pace with the latest jump in fluid-milk prices. This means that complicated subsidies-and increasing ones at that-have now spread even into the distribution field...
...famous lawyer Ronald Coleman hadn't worn a mustache and a van dyke, he would have lost his legal look, and "The Talk of the Town" would have been minus it's one really novel feature. But not even a clean-shaven Coleman could have slowed down the pace of this fast-stepping comedy. Technical errors and a few kernels of corn keep it from the top, but it still ranks high among the year's better pictures...