Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departure highlighted a-general trend in Washington: many another able man had left since the end of the war, and for the same reason (Oscar Cox, Albert Browning, Abe Fortas, Daniel W. Bell, et aL). Congress was making motions towards raising its own salaries. The same would soon have to be done for administrative offices...
...follow, there will be dimly discernible, to those who are interested in cause & effect in history, the features of a shy, almost saintly, childlike little man with the soft brown eyes, the drooping facial lines of a world-weary hound, and hair like an aurora borealis. He is Professor Albert Einstein, author of the Theory of Special Relativity, the Unified Field Theory, and a decisive expansion of Max Planck's Quantum Theory, onetime director of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Professor Emeritus at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, onetime Swiss citizen, onetime Enemy No.1 of Hitler...
...disfiguring" garments. She was nagged eternally by her mother, who was "always cruelly finding fault with her in front of other people." At 14 Edith's sensibilities had become so acute that she vomited on hearing John Philip Sousa conduct his brass band in London's Albert Hall...
Grace Moore, bubbly blonde operatic soprano, was back from a European tour. Laryngitis had forced her to skip a concert at London's Albert Hall, and she had a fine prima-donna tribute for the audience. "The audience was simply marvelous," she said, "accepting my apologies and listening instead to Marjorie Lawrence...
Died. George Albert Hormel, 85, founder of George A. Hormel & Co. (now run by his son Jay), Minnesota meat-packing house which kills a million pigs a year ; after a stroke ; in Los Angeles...