Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there been such heavy human traffic in the choppy waters between Dover and Cap Gris Nez. Everyone seemed to want to swim the Channel. Last week a clothing salesman from Cuba and a Dutch housewife tried, both for the second time, and failed. Shirley May France of Massachusetts (TIME, Aug. 8) still hesitated before making the big plunge. In this crowd of fame-seekers, a short, stocky Yorkshire schoolboy named Philip Mick-man went almost unnoticed. But last week, 18-year-old Philip beat his rivals...
...Reliable. Ever since his Christian Democratic Union had come out ahead in the West German elections (TIME, Aug. 22), Adenauer's work load had increased staggeringly. Letters have poured in-from oldtime civil servants seeking jobs, from contractors eager to get in on Bonn's construction boom, from well-wishers, favor-askers, crackpots, foreign diplomats. Callers pressed him relentlessly-a U.S. broadcasting company wanted to record his message to the American people; Bonn's deputy mayor came to talk over housing for mushrooming government' bureaus; a secretary asked him to approve the musical program...
...sale. On hand were 103 brace (i.e., 206 birds), at $10.50 a brace, or about $3.50 a pound. That was the standard price for grouse; there was no extra charge for the fact that the birds had been bagged by George VI and his hunting party in Scotland (TIME, Aug. 22). The thing for U.S. gourmets to do, of course, would be to wash the illustrious birds down with a full cup of English mead; pyment, said gastronomes, would go best with grouse...
...more typical of the 220 artists represented were two local landscapists whose work changes not a whit from year to year: Dean Fausett (TIME, Aug. 22) and Luigi Lucioni. Their crisp, slick pictures of red barns, cows, birches and green pastures were echoed with varying success from wall to wall, making an exhibition steeped in milk and spinach, the way the customers liked it. (The exhibiting artists sold $10,000 worth of pictures at last year's show, might do as well this time...
...victims of rheumatoid arthritis impatiently awaiting a boost in the tiny supply of cortisone, there was another slender ray of hope this week. While it might take years to make the hormone from seeds of the over-trumpeted vine Strophanthus sarmentosus (TIME, Aug. 29), a more abundant and more accessible plant has been named as a source of the raw material...