Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first began printing TIME in two plants 660 miles apart just before the war began-when it became so important to get TIME's news to you fast. This would be a fairly simple job if TIME printed love stories instead of news-for then we would have time to set all the type in plant No. 1 and just send press plates to plant No. 2. (In fact, several unhurried magazines are printing separate eastern and midwestern editions right now just to save money on distribution...
...boastful press." From the Philippines Sims sent a report to the Navy Department in Washington showing that the battleship Kentucky, current pride of the fleet, was a very poor fighting machine-"not a battleship at all." Assigned to the old cruiser Brooklyn, he immediately began tearing her apart in a report, remarked: "I invite you to take a look at the wreck of the Brooklyn when I get through with her." Of the monitor Monterey at Canton, he made only an informal complaint...
...Reason: it is even more a language of tones than official Chinese. Where the Chinese use four tones, the Bulus have five-two high, two low and one in the middle. So distinct are the pitches and rhythms of the language that sometimes a couple of people "too far apart to hear actual words call back and forth using only the syllables kiki in the tones of the words they would employ in ordinary conversation." The thick and the thin sides of the drum are played in pitches and rhythms to match the language...
...Gandhi and Nehru cannot be brushed off the face of Bharat Mata (Mother India). Until Gandhi dies, Nehru is bound to him by ties of love and political necessity, even though their political thinking is poles apart...
...coming head-on toward the Zero. The Jap made a quick half-roll, momentarily flying upside down and attempting to get on top. Cocky pulled up and poured three or four bursts into the Jap, whose plane began spitting blue flame. The planes whizzed by each other 150 feet apart and Cocky caught a glimpse of the Jap pilot climbing out of the cockpit. Both planes went into a spin. Cocky pulled out of his, but the Zero crashed into a hilltop and burst into a huge spout of flame...