Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aviators himself. "I'll never get tired of traveling," she wrote to a friend recently. Last week she was back at her job as stewardess of a huge Air France Constellation just making ready to come in for a landing at Azores' Santa Maria airfield. The sky around her ship was clear, and laced with invisible, ether-borne messages linking the plane and its 48 passengers to the earth below...
Hans Zaisser's army nucleus worries democratic Germans in the West. They can see compulsory military service in the Soviet Zone around the corner, with a full-fledged War Ministry in the puppet Communist government of East Germany...
...that schnapps tore my stomach up." He also expressed interest in Roman history: "They tell me that Nero had a chick with him when this joint burnt down." But by all odds the high spot came after Satchmo (who has Baptist leanings and wears a Star of David medallion around his neck) said that he had always wanted to meet the Pope. It was arranged; Satchmo and his wife Lucille were granted a special audience. Said Armstrong, before leaving for northern Italy, France and the U.S.: "The people everywhere has been wonderful." How did his reception in Europe this year...
Playing on a tile-floored court and using a ponderous outdoor-style basketball with outside seams, a picked Argentine five followed Don Sensato's advice. They used the bounce pass almost exclusively, scooted under and around the Oklahomans who were runners-up for the A.A.U. championship last year, actually beat them (55-46) in the second of three games (the Oilers had won the first, 38-29). The fans, who could scarcely believe their eyes, carried the local heroes away on their shoulders and the Buenos Aires Critica proclaimed that it was "David and Goliath all over again." Even...
...Prizewinner Harold C. Urey of the University of Chicago is one of the scientists who has arrived at a new theory of the earth's birth and development. According to Urey, the earth and the moon were formed at the same time out of the primeval dust cloud around the sun. First materials to "precipitate" from the cloud were light stony silicates, which formed the cores of the earth and moon. But the earth's core was bigger than the moon's, and it attracted much more of the heavy iron which precipitated later from the dust...