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  2. On Board a British Destroyer

    To look back, after nearly five years, to the dark days of 1941 provides a lesson at once salutary and encouraging. Surely so much could not have been endured, so much might triumphed over, and so much heroism displayed, for the results to slip away in quarrelsome and vexatious disputations. Surely some lessons of an abiding ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,748 words
  3. Ancient Canine History

    The many Australians who are interested in dogs and their welfare will be gratified to know that, even during the hazards of war both in this country and overseas, the strains that may be said to be the backbone of the dog-breeding industry have been sustained, even improved, and that a decidedly higher standard exists than ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,227 words
  4. Governing a Language

    France recently appointed Georges Duhamel to be the permanent secretary of her Academy, which has no exact counterpart in other lands. Paul Pellisson, its first historian, related that in 1629 some private individuals jiving in different parts of Paris, and finding it highly inconvenient to pay frequent and fruitless visits to ...

    Article : 1,629 words
  5. Nemesis at Nuremberg

    One hundred years ago Carlyle published his "Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell." The dyspeptic genius was then fifty, and already his ideas on the place, of the strong man in history were well established. "He divided mankind," says W. S. Lilley, "into two classes--the wise few and the unwise many. He conceived the hero ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,305 words
  6. British Church Treasures

    Although German air action destroyed or damaged 14,156 churches, monasteries, convents and other ecclesiastical buildings in Britain during the war, the loss of churches of great architectural and artistic value is now known to have been much less than was at one time feared. ...

    Article : 495 words
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