Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Memory of a Tomb. At the top-unquestionably-is Maurice Thorez. He started at the bottom. Son and grandson of a miner, he was born in 1900 at Noyelle-Godault in the Pas-de-Calais. "My earliest memory is of a mining accident, of plain white wooden coffins placed in...
Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, whose only daughter was killed in a 1944 California motor accident, spoke as one who had experienced the "heartbreak . . . of such tragedy . . . of needless and useless traffic deaths," and called on U.S. communities to regard traffic violators as "potential murderers."
The Browderless weekend wore on; speculation raged. Might Browder win reinstatement from Moscow? Stranger shifts had marked the party's history. Or, perhaps, he had met with an accident?
Unlike the finding of penicillin itself (TIME, May 15, 1944), the discovery of this fact was no accident. Three months ago two researchers discovered something that raised the eyebrows of penicillin experts, set them to rechecking furiously. Worried, they spot-checked hundreds of recently treated syphilis cases. The result was...
"The first essential is to get out of one's head the modern and materialistic idea that the object of lying in bed is to sleep ... [it is] to enjoy oneself, and it is no more than a fortunate accident that good sleeping and waking happen to contribute to...