Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Died. F. Scott Fitzgerald, 44, who suffered a heart attack three weeks ago; author of This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, other books, stories of the "sad young men" of the postwar flapper era; in Hollywood...
...last week, the rambling, white-walled Navy Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue was full of the expectation that most of the great fleet would be in commission by the end of 1945. Unofficially, Navy officers said that this chart of deliveries was, if anything, on the conservative side...
...cost the Axis dear in power and prestige. Reports began flowing about Germans rushing to the rescue, and the Nazi official newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, announced: "The British are in error if they think that the Germans do not know their place, which has always been by the side of their brothers in arms. Their place is alongside Italy...
England's Established Church has little to do with nonconformists on the one side, Roman Catholics on the other. But last week the Church of England's two primates, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, made history by jointly signing a letter to the London Times with Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, and Dr. Walter H. Armstrong, Joint Secretary of the Federal Council of the Free Churches. Winston Churchill has avoided any statement of war aims, so the churchmen set up "five standards" as a post-war plan to guide statesmen. Like the Sermon...
...long dormitory with double-decker bunks. They are allowed to use the high-walled prison yard at any time. But they must eat, sleep, get up by military schedule. Food is reported to be the same ration given German civilians-one course of stew with bread on the side. There is hot water daily, but baths only every ten days. Prisoners have only the clothes they brought along. There are no books. For recreation, the prisoners are allowed to play cards, and there is an empty room where an acrobatic dancer practices while others watch. Some...