Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style, Theo Matejko works usually in charcoal. Aged 45, famed in Berlin as the driver of a white Mercédès racing car, he has flown this year with Nazi sea raiders but does not claim to have seen the alleged bombing of Ark Royal. This may account for considerable artistic license...
...what to do about his award, murmured: "Even if I don't receive the money, the honor of being named is a most agreeable surprise." A less agreeable surprise to a half-dozen other scientists who had their hopes was the Nobel committee's announcement that, on account of World War II, the other 1939 prizes were withheld - possibly until next year, probably for good...
True deafness can be caused only by injury to the inner ear, or to the auditory nerve. Inherited structural defects account for a large proportion of these cases; syphilis, scarlet fever, meningitis, measles, for many others. Skull fractures and the force of violent explosions may injure the cochlea or the auditory nerve...
...informative, engaging book is merely a skilful advertisement for flying-for-the-fun-of-it and for the planes which make such flying possible. But the author's enthusiasm alone is more than disarming on that score. What he has done is simply to give a deftly selective account of his own career as an impecunious amateur: the virginal application for lessons; first flight cross-country, by dead reckoning; a siege of "aero-neurosis," parachuting, a flight along the desolate eastward shelf of the continent. By the time he is done he has set straight a number of groundling...
...biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Pringle was well qualified to write about the man whom T. R. picked for President and, later, bitterly denounced. Nearly 500,000 Taft letters and papers were placed at his disposal by the Taft family. The result: a play-by-play account of an underestimated administration, a just portrait of a just...