Word: anent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until alleged Eye-witness Aaron Kopman spoke last week, such charges anent Soviet "lumber hells" had been chiefly heard as "rumors," carried in notoriously sensational "despatches from Riga," hurled into the ether from such professionally anti-Red radio stations as Manhattan's WHAP...
...Literary Digest of some two years ago were several columns of moonshine and nonsense anent how some Indians who lived in a certain altitude near Albuquerque, N. M. had a penchant for long distance running as no other white men had, etc., etc., etc. Yet had the writer been informed he would have found out that these records were away below those of Newton made only a few months and years before this, and none seemed to know that the peerless runner George Littlesond of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, came to Madison Square, N. Y. and on Dec. 1882 covered...
Eight Hours in 1918 Sirs: TIME'S timely news anent the Hunter Boys in Chicago endurance flight over 500 hrs. no doubt will be chronicled. Newsy news in connection: the first "endurance"? flight-no refueling ship was then known: in September 1918, U. S. Naval Air Station at Killingholme, England, a N.C. 2, two Liberty-motor flying boat, Curtiss type, built at Naval Aircraft factory, Philadelphia. Four men, oil, fuel, water, armament (machine guns and two bombs), with detonator device fixed, rations and even two carrier pigeons. Total weight: 10,440 Ibs. Flying full-load weight, specially groomed, flew...
...Correction anent "Nanette et Rintintin" (TIME...
TIME says anent non-award of Pulitzer newspaper Public Service prize: ". . . the prize committee (names withheld) were either unimpressed or unable to agree." (TIME, May 19). The prize committee, of which I was a member, was impressed, agreed unanimously. But, for some reason, Columbia University trustees withheld award...