Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maybe everything would work out for the best in the end. But meanwhile there was so much to do and so little time to do it in. Let's not miss anything. Get in there and pitch, sonny, there's no telling when the game will be called on account of darkness or rain or a chain reaction of Uranium...
What do they think of union-needling Columnist Westbrook Pegler? Pungent examples: "Westbrook Pegler is a knight in brilliant array who should be knocked from his horse." "A sour-vinegar writer . . . who exposes the abuses of labor unions without giving due account to the good work that most unions...
John Scott, head of TIME'S Berlin Bureau, was arrested in Poland on his way to cover the recent referendum. Last week he cabled this account of some interesting hours spent with the Bezpieczenstwo, the secret police which is supposed to be Polish but appears to contain some citizens of another country...
...been only partly successful. To rescue Oscar altogether from the pathological fog is more than he or anybody else can do. Oscar's homosexual tastes and his literary personality are hardly separable, however true it may be that the mere heat of the one does not account for the light of the other. Pearson's explanations explain very little. He thinks that Wilde's emotional nature never developed "beyond adolescence"; hence Wilde always remained "an exceptionally brilliant undergraduate, half boy, half genius." Nevertheless, he adds, Wilde was "very much in love" with Constance Lloyd when they married...
Fishing Probabilities. Swaggering little Enrico Fermi, who put the match to history's first atomic chain reaction, led off with a circumstantial account of how a chain-reacting pile works...