Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tranquilizers. As for old dogs, they are taught new tricks, according to the latest scientific principles of geriatrics and psychology. In the last two decades, veterinary medicine in the U.S. has made giant forward strides paralleling human practice ever more closely in medication and surgery. For an account of how vets and pets are getting along, see MEDICINE, Veterinary Revolution...
Said Adams to a delighted audience of 1,300 Minnesota Republicans in Minneapolis' Leamington Hotel: Democrats "ought to know better than to keep on politicking with national defense. As a matter of fact, they ought to be called strictly to account by the American people for using this subject as party glue. I'll say simply this: we Republicans greet the opposition on this battlefield with as much anticipation as on any other they can conjure...
...surprise $2,000,000 in 1927 from Hartford Banker Frank C. Sumner ("He used to drive out in a purple Rolls-Royce to see the Hartford Chiefs play baseball, but as far as we know he never walked into the museum in his life") gave the Atheneum the bank account it direly needed. Looking for an out-of-vogue period in which to buy first-class painting, the director, the late A. Everett ("Chick") Austin Jr., beelined for the then unwanted, melodramatic baroque and rococo canvases...
...York. The governors descended on New York's Governor Averell Harriman, another Democrat. But Harriman was cool to their heat: New York is already worried about a $20 million drop in all revenue. There may be discrimination, he agreed, but tax laws cannot be written to take into account every individual's situation." To study the situation further, the governors set up a tristate committee of tax experts...
...were Social Revolutionaries, only 775 Bolsheviks. Seventeen hours after it met, the Constituent Assembly was destroyed. Mark Vishniak, senior member of TIME'S Russian desk since 1946, was a Social Revolutionary delegate from the district of Yaroslav, and was elected Secretary of the Constituent Assembly. His retrospective account of what happened the day democracy died in Russia...