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...should be made of the religious resources of the community ... for the care and training of children needing care away from their own families. . . . Support given by the Federal Government to programs growing out of wartime needs should not be used as a means of fixing a national pattern on American community life...
...daughter of "the royal family" of an old New England textile town. Late in the '20s Emily falls in love with young Harry Collins, and her happiness and his future in the family textile plant seem assured. But life strangely weaves, as Aunt Em remarks, "a sort of pattern." Meningitis suddenly strikes Emily stone deaf; the Depression divides the town into two warring factions. In the clash between labor and capital Emily feels for both sides. ("There it was, I thought, the word 'they' that we all took refuge in. It would always crop up to foster...
Organizations like the Student Council, the CRIMSON, and Phillips Brooks House adjusted themselves to the new accelerated program, which had completely muddled the familiar four-year pattern...
...road that was China's lifeline to the fighting wealth of her allies. Now he charged with terrifying speed into the flank of her ragged fighters, defying analysis of his advance by the dazzling multiplicity of his spearheads. The Jap flung his main force in a curiously variegated pattern. Above Lashio, some 100 miles, he branched into two forks, sent one column north to Myitkyina, where he established an air base. Another column swung northeast up the Burma Road...
...midst of these shouts, the Guard grew. Tom Wintringham gave it a training pattern in his guerrilla school at Osterley Park, the estate of the Earl of Jersey and his U.S. wife, onetime Cinemactress Virginia Cherrill. There in weekly batches Home Guard officers were trained in mak-ing hand grenades, using Molotov cocktails, wrecking tank treads. After a year of fighting for more armaments and more accent on guerrilla tactics, Wintringham resigned. The War Office, which suspected his politics, was glad to see him go. He was replaced by a safe man-Major General Viscount Bridgeman, the mild-mannered, sharp...