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...last week. Once more the greying, six-foot, 60-year-old Scots-Canadian whose hobby is largesse and who has been giving money away for ten years had apparently eluded the harassed, grey-haired, unidentified woman who usually accompanies him on trips and tries to head off his eccentric, spur-of-the-moment cash philanthropies...
...listeners, monitoring Japanese home broadcasts, found the speeches and newspaper quotations following two main lines: 1) to brace Jap hope, stories of U.S. weakness and disunity; 2 ) to spur the Jap war effort, solemn warnings that vast physical resources make the U.S. an enemy to be feared...
...soldiers made no pretense of liking the war they were fighting. It was just a job to get done so a man could go home again. The example of the plodding Chinese, the bulk of work they turned out, was enough to spur Americans on when the thoughts of home grew dim and the dust and sweat became intolerable...
Thomson got some business and University of Minnesota friends to help him form the Northwest Research Committee. They picked Albert Lea as their guinea pig: it represented a neatly balanced war-busy industry and farming. Last June, under the spur of N.R.C., 46 Albert Lea citizens began to examine their city and county. The U.S. Chamber's pamphlet tells what the Albert Leamen and N.R.C. found...
...gentleman gave his word of honor that there would be no classes Labor Day. Another, that the School would march enmasse to greet a covey of pin-up girls in Boston to spur the war effort...