Double Exposure Ends With Public Suspense and a New Tenant
Mr Banstead ill advisedly photographs a blonde and plans to mail prints to his fiancée. A policeman later reveals the image tracked a wanted internee and coastal defence works, forcing a quick bungalow rental update and a telegram confirming the four week tenancy.
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Difficult words spark a tour of long spellings
The piece notes 500 000 English words and lists forms like Interdifferentiation Photospectroheliograph and Transsubstantiationists. It highlights the curiosity of readers and proofreaders facing foreign and long English terms. It ends with a quip about ladders and work at the top.
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Coffee Trade Through Yemen Highlands and Suez Transit Time
Yemen's inland highlands have produced coffee since Mahomet's era. The Suez Canal, 101 miles long, typically takes around 11 hours 31 minutes to traverse.
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Newfoundland Victory Loan Drive Urges Bond Purchases
A wartime appeal urges Newfoundland residents to buy Victory Bonds to fund planes ships and guns for the United Kingdom. The message ties financial support to shortening the war and bringing loved ones home, urging applications through local War Savings committees banks or investment dealers.
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Gems And Ideas On Life And Progress
A collection of aphorisms and quotes on ideas progress and the power of thoughts from various authors including Jean Ingelow Anslin Phelps E H Chapin Mary Baker Eddy and W M Paxton. The text emphasizes ideas shaping history surpassing circumstances and influencing progress through beauty and conviction.
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World's Toughest Wood Discovered in India for Tool Handles
Experiments at the Forest Research Institute in Dehra Dun identify a new wood from the Anogeisans family as the world's toughest for heavy striking handles. A related member of the same family provides eight times the strength of ordinary handle wood, rivaling hickory.
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Forest Research Institute
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Bushaccd Bush Find Sparks Rural Quip
Quote pair shows a character seeking a bushac d only to discover the one already with them, highlighting a playful rural exchange and mistaken identity moment. The banter centers on a bushac d and a rural setting.
Is Our Education Sensible In Postwar Times
The piece warns that postwar difficulties loom and employment declines persist despite wages and prosperity. It critiques the educational system for routine methods, prejudice, and misaligned aims from authorities and examinations. It calls for aligning education with national needs and creating new industries rather than vague promises.
Newfoundland Craft Industries Could Boost Local Economy
Trade Review argues Newfoundland could create a home industries program worth hundreds of thousands annually. With long winters, hundreds of homes have spare hours for training in carving, toy making, basketry, and wood weaving to yield remunerative work forWinter evenings. A foreign market exists and locals may excel with training.
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Newfoundland
Trade Review
Sacrifice to Buy Bonds Echoes Soldiers’ Resolve
Commentary reflects on civilians saving money for bonds versus military boys who left home to serve, asking readers to measure personal sacrifice against the bravest efforts of the armed forces. The piece underscores wartime duty and collective effort.
Churchill and Eden clash over youth in British politics
Anthony Eden quotes American press descriptions of himself as a youthful diplomat. Churchill replies that British politics define youth at zero and middle age at seventy, naming McDonald Baldwin Chamberlain and himself as examples.
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Chamberlain
New York Post
University of Moscow to reopen for new scholastic year
An English broadcast to America from Russia reports the University of Moscow will reopen for the new scholastic year with four departments geology philology law and philosophy.
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America
Russia
French Colonies Vastly Bigger Than France in Area
A historical note states that French colonies collectively cover about 22 times the area of metropolitan France. The claim highlights imperial reach and geographic scope of French possessions, illustrating a stark contrast between the metropole and its overseas domains.
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Olive agriculture in the Mediterranean economy since ancient times
Mediterranean nations sustain an economy rooted in olive farming with history dating back to recorded epochs. The sector links to trade, culture, and regional livelihoods across multiple countries and centuries.
Photo Caption Sparks Recognition Over Bat-Clad Figure
A captioned photo features a man with two French poodles asking Miss Cane to confirm his identity. She answers she believes him to be the one wearing the bat insignia, prompting recognition in a playful exchange.
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56 Year Old Woman Works In War Factory
Miss Clifford of London, aged 56, describes her day in a war factory from 7 a m to 7 p m with ARC duties on weekends. She credits a morning Kruschen dose for energy and stamina amid wartime labor, noting its claimed health benefits and mineral composition.
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London
A.R.P
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Absent-Minded Professor Refuses Doctor Visit
A bedridden professor tells the doctor to wait while a servant packs the scene. The visiting physician notes the professor is ill and unable to see him, prompting a tense exchange about his condition.
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