Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiscal 1947 with a $700 million surplus, but it had not been foreseen in the budget. The 1930-46 period is the longest in which the U.S. ever operated in the red. The infant republic broke about even on deficits and surpluses from 1789 to 1800. Thereafter, Treasury spokesman Albert Gallatin, a strong advocate of high taxes to cut public debt, got it into the habit of trying to stay in the black. The U.S. has managed surpluses in 95 of its 158 years, but has never been entirely out of debt. Lowest point of the national debt...
...record that Francis Bacon was much of a tennis player, but most tennis players would agree with his estimate of the game. The best tennis player in the world, a 26-year-old named John Albert Kramer, should certainly not take exception to it-though he might want to add a few things. For instance, the kind of tennis he plays is about to be of some use to his country. And shortly thereafter, it might be turned to more immediate profit to himself...
...feet. It was broken again in 1935 by Orvil Anderson and Albert W. Stevens, U.S. Army Air Corps, who went to 72,395 feet in a sealed, spherical gondola like Piccard...
...people of the Mormon Church, believe that President George Albert Smith, the Prophet, Seer, and Revelator for the church today, can, and does receive revelation from the Almighty and His servants. . . . The last revelation was not the one ending the practice of polygamy ; it is merely the last revelation contained or recorded in the "Doctrine and Covenants," one of our Church Standards. There have been many revelations, visions, etc. since . . . and I am quite sure that there will continue...
Nicholas Hilliard was the first, and greatest, of English miniaturists. Last week, 400 years after his birth, 101 Hilliard miniatures were on display in London's Victoria and Albert Museum...