Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snyder believes that his latest catalogue only scratches the surface. His best guess on the ultimate number of species which may be discovered: almost...
...reason for the wide difference between the nation's best and the nation's average, said Dr. Moyer, lies in the difficulty of the operation. It takes a highly skilled surgical team to perform this difficult task, and there are few such teams available. To train 100 specialized teams, Dr. Moyer conceded, would be an immense job. But it might save 30,000 to 38,000 stomach cancer victims each year...
...Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, When My Baby Smiles at Me) which at best gives them the pleasant frenzy of a circus calliope. But this one seems to take all the wrong paths. Even the Technicolor scenes are draped with heavy shadows that obscure the more interesting characters. The best that can be said of the show is that Gale Robbins and June Haver, both pleasant to look at, do some nice singing and dancing, whenever they get the chance...
Manners & Morals. All in all, the best novels of the year came from Britain. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was a grim warning of what the latter stages of statism could be like. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice and a bestseller, it was a happy combination of urgent theme and ideal writer that found adequate recognition. The Literary Guild also reached abroad, in a departure from its routine menu, to give its 900,000 members Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day. Long considered one of the world's fine stylists, Miss Bowen...
...FICTION The war, the uneasy peace and the many-directioned search for personal and world repose accounted for most of the year's best-read books. No war books achieved the popularity of Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe or Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. From Winston Churchill came Their Finest Hour, the stately, grandly stated second volume of his World War II memoirs. Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery went on with his battle report in El Alamein to the River Sangro, but its army-manual style limited its appeal chiefly to professional soldiers. A more dramatic...