Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have read with great interest the account of Dr. Craig Taylor's experiments on the effect of high temperatures on the human body [TIME, Dec. 22]. I have wondered since if Dr. Taylor knew of similar experiments which were recorded by Sir David Brewster in his Letters on Natural Magic, written in 1832... . The report, in part, reads as follows...
...commander in chief is filled with wisdom. Airplanes are of no account...
...Great Rehearsal is a day-by-day account of the convention; it is cool and unexcited. Deliberately, it seems, Author Van Doren has restrained himself from paying tribute to the magnitude of the accomplishment that he records. The book's drama is not in the telling, but in the event. For the miracle of the Constitutional Convention was not that the delegates organized a nation; it was the kind of nation they created, one that has grown and prospered beyond any in history, and will so continue, as long as it remains faithful to its origins...
...next morning I opened a checking account under my new name at the Cambridge Trust Company and went in to Cramer's office an Devonshire Street, deep in Boston's financial district...
...Correspondent Robert St. John wrote From the Land of Silent People, a first-rate reporter's account of the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. He followed up his success by becoming a novelist (It's Always Tomorrow'), popular lecturer and radio commentator, received the accolade of the Left when he was dropped by NBC last year because, in pinko PM's opinion at least, he was "too liberal." Now, St. John has written one of the longest (210,000 words) studies of Yugoslavia since Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...