Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exiled Premier Hubert Pierlot last week tossed a proposition as calm as it was simple. His proposition: that Belgium take up where she left off in 1940, with King Leopold on the throne, the prewar Parliament in its seats, the exiled Cabinet in power until it "renders account" and prepares the country for postwar elections...
Said Admiral King: "We still have a very long way to go to win the war in the Pacific. ... I think there is a great deal of over-optimism."* Said Admiral Home: the appropriation estimates had taken into account a possible ending of the European war this year, but "I would like to interpolate there that I do not believe...
...Sirs: In your account of my checkered career in TIME (March 13), you omitted the one episode which gives coherence to the whole...
Uncorking the Flame. Back in Britain, bookish young William devoured Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Neal's History of the Puritans, and Calamy's Account of the Two Thousand Ejected Ministers. Guests were surprised when the child entertained them with discussions of "such matters as the Test and the Corporation Acts, or the interpretation of a point in Scripture:" At the age of 13, Hazlitt published a passionate defense of the Reverend Joseph Priestley, radical and scientist. But his zeal for religion faltered; young Hazlitt decided to become a painter. Art proved tumultuous. When his canvases displeased...
...Hisaw thought a hormone in the ovaries might account for this change. He tested his theory by injecting extracts from a female's ovaries into castrated male pocket gophers. Sure enough, the males lost their symphyses...