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Except for English Historian Arnold J. Toynbee's massive summation of the world's experience, which is a best-seller in a one-volume condensation, most of the year's non-fiction was written by men stranded on shallow isles of postwar political journalism-and how often and how quickly the fleets of history passed them by! Others, more aware of present dilemmas tried to find answers in the American past. The year saw an extraordinary number of new books on American history, some of them solid scholarly achievements...
Coach Hal Ulen has a knack of sifting talent in unpromising disguises. Before Forbes "Ted" Norris ever stepped into the shallow pool for a splash, Ulen had fashioned a two-year high scorer in '39 and '40 out of Eric Cutler, a victim of polio taking the aquatic form of treatment...
...front lines. . . . We learned about night patrols and fear, and a lot of us learned about prayer. I think that was when I decided on my vocation to the Cistercian life, lying in a shallow foxhole listening to a boy mumble 'O Lord! O Lord' as the shells screamed overhead and exploded. ... I realized my faith wasn't so strong, neither was my confidence nor my love. So I prayed to Our Lady to spare me, and promised her to join the Cistercians to learn to love...
...custom, were at afternoon tea or were just ambling back to their counters. They smelled fire and saw wisps of smoke but, told that firemen were arriving, carried on with their jobs. Then, in a twinkling, the acre-wide building was a pillar of flame. Fire broke from the shallow basement, seared the main floor, exploded upward to the second and third...
Calling himself "skeptical of the Liberal Party, skeptical of the P.C.A., and skeptical of a Wallace Third Party," Lynd doomed all these to failure within the near future because they all "cut too shallow...