Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatly interested by your article [TIME, Feb. 10] about Mrs. Anthony C. Hartley (Deborah Kerr), because of the fact that I knew R.A.F. Squadron Leader Bartley when he was stationed at the Orlando, Fla. Army Air Base. I ... have wondered why the great L.B. [Louis B. Mayer] doesn't make his find a double-header and make a movie star out of Tony...
...Canadians, whose sovereignty would be involved in any joint Arctic establishments, took the news of the agreement calmly. In Moscow, the New Times, as expected, squawked that the U.S. was "turning Canada . . . into its own military base." But many Canadians thought that the trouble with the agreement was that it did not go far enough. Said the Montreal Star: "Whether the U.S. seeks bases or not, no effective defense arrangements can be made without bases. There can and should be bases manned and operated by the two countries in collaboration...
Science may yet save the musk deer. Perfume chemists in modern laboratories are working hard to perfect a synthetic musk odor. Meanwhile, the deer himself (carrying his hairy, walnut-sized pouch at the base of his abdomen) will try to outrun his pursuers...
...sensitivity to the same animal perfume that interests the female musk deer. Both men & women once used musk scent straight, but modern perfumers are more subtle: it is now diluted and smothered with flowery fragrances. But its Sunday punch is still there. Musk, or some musklike scent, is the base for most pulse-twitching perfumes, which (as the advertisements hint) "drive men wild...
...administration of Michigan State College made membership in its tiny AYD chapter a probationary offense, 22 faculty members representing 11 departments and 27 students representing 16 organizations jumped into action immediately at the nearby University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to form a Committee for Academic Freedom. The broad base of this solidified campus hostility is mild indication of what the intellectually alive student body will do in return for inquisitorial tactics--or even the promise of them...