Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mother Cohen's prophecy came true. She lived to see her son become a professor of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, the most brilliant man on the faculty and one of the most respected of U.S. philosophers...
High & Soon. As Casey watched, the French sled rumbled into Shady, its steel blades skitting and chattering around the curve. It came so close to cracking up that Casey made a mental resolution to talk to French steersman Louis Saint Calbre. Two weeks before, the Belgian team's sled had catapulted over Shady's 22-ft. wall of ice in a practice run, killing the driver and leading to Belgium's withdrawal. The Frenchman was driving Shady the same way. Said Casey to himself: "I got to go up and tell him how to take...
...most, America sounded un-Blochian: a muddied mixture of Indian tom-toms, Pop! Goes the Weasel, anvils (the industrial age), automobile horns and telephone bells, with his main theme bobbing up here & there. When the grand finale finally came, the audience rose to its feet and roared out the anthem-2,300 voices plus a full orchestra and a booming pipe organ...
Havenga had not always flouted the rules. A tough veteran of the Boer War, he became Finance Minister in 1924, and budgeted so conservatively in the next 15 years that he became known as the "Minister of Surpluses." When war came in 1939, he plumped for South African neutrality, split with Prime Minister Smuts, and two years later disappeared into the political wilderness. Last spring he allied his Afrikaaner Party with the race-conscious Nationalist Party (TIME, June 7) and rode back into power when Smuts went...
...most studied estimate of the future came from Roy Wenzlick, the house-building industry's top economist. Said he: "You will build between 7 and 10% fewer dwellings than in 1948. I expect the total . . . will be 850,000." Wenzlick also predicted that construction costs will drop slightly in a few months, a little more later in the year, and then level...