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...other hand, we must not, in the search for perfection, withdraw our support of the best which may now be practical. "The Dumbarton Oaks proposals assure . . . that when the war coalition dissolves it will be replaced by a peace coalition, rather than by pre-war anarchy. . . . Therefore, they can be accepted. But they can be accepted only as a beginning. Next to doing nothing, the worst calamity would be to regard what is now done as adequate. . . . We must recognize the fact that we face a continuing task...
...resistance, sometimes none at all. Some had no weapons bigger than machine guns, and some seemed to be used chiefly for living quarters. The German commandant of Fort Verny had installed Persian rugs, Louis XV chairs, Oriental lacquered tables. He was captured behind the fort, wandering dazedly about in search...
Bloodhound and Ant. An ordinary woman-or man-might have abandoned this recondite search in despair. But the genuine scholar is indefatigable-a combination of bloodhound and ant. Ella Lonn did not forget the problem of the colonial agent. But before returning to it she produced four other books-all scholarly tomes of the kind which are published obscurely but become indispensable source books for other scholars and for popular writers...
Then the President, leaning back in his baggy tweeds, agreed to disclose his private pre-election guess on the division of electoral votes. He searched in a drawer for an envelope he had sealed before election day. He looked up, laughing-perhaps it would be necessary to search everyone in the room. Finally, paper in hand, he guessed that he had been a little too conservative. He had given himself 335 votes, Governor Dewey 196. (Final vote: 432 to 99.) The short conference ended with another roar of laughter after the Baltimore Sun's Paul Ward threw a quick...
Their transport sailed to New Zealand, and the men scoured the bookstores in vain. The transport sailed on. was sunk in the Solomons. Machinist's Mate Third Class Lloyd Powers, one of the men on the gun deck, got back to the U.S. last January, made another unsuccessful search for a copy of the book. When he landed briefly in the San Diego Naval Hospital, he pestered Librarian Jeanette Barry to try. She appealed for help in Publishers' Weekly, but still no copy turned...