Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other troubles appeared. When Capt. John Crommelin, rated one of the best naval aviators in the business, tried to defend the Worth letter a few weeks ago "at the peril of my naval career," he was promptly moved lout of Washington to a job with the fleet. the white House announcement of atomic explosions in Russia, coupled with persistent rumors of 5000 mile-ranged rockets coming out of the Russian experimental stations on the Baltic, stimulated a drive in Congress for a bigger Air Force. With the present limited defense budget, naval officers fretfully equated this against smaller fleet...
Coach Valpey was anything but discouraged over last Saturday's stunning loss at Baker Field. Watching the movies yesterday satisfied him that Harvard turned in "the best game they have ever played for me, from a coaching point of view...
...Even the best translation, John Ormsby's version of 1885, is stiff, and the Peter Motteux translation of 1700, the only one in U.S. print for more than a decade, has been called "worse than worthless." What Sainte-Beuve called "the Bible of humanity," and Dostoevsky "the greatest utterance of the human mind," often seems little more than a scrambled dictionary of archaic and occasionally gamy slang. A few pages of it are about all most readers can stand. As a result, the Knight of the Mournful Countenance is handed down by hearsay as nothing more than the original...
Masterpiece by Mistake. Last week U.S. readers could discover what they had been missing. Samuel Putnam, a Renaissance specialist who has done the best translation of Rabelais, has reversed Cervantes' vast tapestry into English without dropping more than a few stitches of detail and coloring...
...most part his scheduled songs were of a concert variety. The best of these was an unaccompanied number called. "The wandering of Old Angus." It is a poem set to a simple and haunting chant by Yeats. This and songs like this are the true ballads of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Mr. Ives does not sing them in his night club repertoire...