Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Because Britons have taken quite a pummeling from the Germans on sea and from the air, and because they have given the Germans quite a punching around in the Sylt, Altmark and Spee affairs. Britons are not so prone as the restless French (see p. 20) to regard the war and their Government as passive. Nevertheless, War Secretary Oliver Stanley felt constrained to admonish domestic and foreign spectators who want more gore in World War II. "We intend to fight in our own way and not in their way," he snorted. "How easy it is, from the ringside, after...
...rides in all kinds of costume. He has himself photographed at all his sports except swimming. Because of his sensitiveness about his hyper-developed mammary glands, other guests were excluded from a Baltic beach where Hermann and his wife went bathing. But he displays no such squeamishness in regard to his guests' sensitivities. All of them are expected to frolic with his lion cub, Caesar, and distinguished visitors at Karinhall are invited to watch his prize cattle breed...
...civilized diet, once devoured 89 prickly pears at a sitting. But he became gradually civilized as he learned to speak and understand English. He showed himself polite, obedient, fond of children, a devoted nurse. In the fields he was a prodigious worker, and Farmer Smith eventually came to regard him as his best servant. Lucas told Smith some of his experiences among the baboons, explained the big scar on his head as the mark of a kick delivered by an ostrich whose nest he was raiding. His origin remained in doubt, but it was remembered that a native woman...
...regard to the quality of the food purchased, it must be pointed out that the elaborate and diverse grading system used in the wholesale food trade makes both price comparison and quality estimate a difficult talk. Harvard does not buy the finest or "luxury" grade of foods. But the food purchased for the dining halls is good...
...words sound, and in their music have concentrated on the flow and meaning of language. Strawinsky in "Oedipus" uses the choral technique of the eighteenth century masters. Employing the text purely as musical material, he achieves his effects by distorting the words, changing their pronunciation, and shifting accents, without regard for the sense of a phrase or its dramatic importance...