Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lucid account of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto [TIME, Feb. 23], I offer my congratulations. . . . Nothing can forestall Communists' inroads in starving countries unless awakened American officials answer the Manifesto's challenge...
...right idea but the wrong place. On the Wrights' first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, their plane rested on a car which ran on a monorail. After a 35-to 40-ft. run, the plane lifted from the rail, and in Orville Wright's own account "climbed a few feet, stalled, then settled to the ground. My stopwatch showed that the machine had been in the air just 3½ seconds." It was not until nearly a year later, on a cow pasture near Dayton, Ohio, that the Wrights used the derrick (see cut) catapult method which...
...religious leader will agree, the daily press does not present a coherent account of religious activity in this country and throughout the world. ... At this moment throughout the state universities there is being established a system of religious education unparalleled in the history of progressive religion. . . . These currents, more important perhaps than farm blocs or youthful novelists, are lost sight of by the reader of the daily press...
...longtime Jack-of-all-letters; of a stroke; in Manhattan. The hour-by-hour news stories he wrote for the New York Sun on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake made journalistic history of a sort: he wrote six or seven columns a day for eight days, produced an account that later became a book, The City That Was. The same year, he left newspapering for magazine work, did notable muckraking on corrupt journalism (The American Newspaper), ultimately churned out some 30 volumes of fact, fiction, drama and verse...
...Mickey Rooney) who becomes a ranking boxer. He falls in love with a finishing-school girl (Ann Blyth) who does not realize that her father (Brian Donlevy) is a big-time gambler. The rest of the story runs true to type. The hero's father is a no-account souse (nicely played by James Dunn); and whenever the laughter, tears or plot complications get too tiresome, there's always another fight to watch. The whole picture is so disarmingly old-fashioned that it is almost likable-but not quite...