Word: carl
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...difficult miles on an "overworked, overcrowded bus" to pay 150 Chinese dollars for a single copy of TIME ("You may be astounded to know that not a few others have regularly paid and are still paying this fabulous and fantastic price"). And from Kityang in South China the Reverend Carl M. Capen writes that when he goes into the back country these days all he takes with him are "the necessities of life-a change of clothing, a Chinese New Testament, a shaving set, toothbrush-and several copies of TIME'S Pony Edition...
...League of Nations, ventured: "This time we will pull it off." Backstopping French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was silver-maned, dark-skinned Joseph Paul-Boncour, who called himself "an oldtimer at this sort of thing." En route he met for the first time in years his old friend Carl Hambro, Norwegian President of the League of Nations, who was too polite to pull rank with airlines and got "bumped" from his plane seat in Atlanta...
...idea while listening to the radio the Thursday the President died. By the weekend his staff had rounded up, whipped into shape and sent to the printers the scripts of radio broadcasts, newspaper obituaries, selections from Roosevelt speeches, appropriate verse (including a made-to-radio-order poem by Carl Carmer and an old one by the late Stephen Vincent Benet), a hurriedly updated appraisal of Roosevelt by Historian Henry Steele Commager. As an enterprising stunt (print order: 300,000), Pocket Books' Memorial made publishing history...
letter from Professor Rademacher himself, reporting that his calculations had been checked and confirmed by famed Mathematician Carl Siegel of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Editor Albert got ready to publish the historic paper in the May issue. U.S. mathematicians, hearing the wildfire rumor, held their breath. Alas for drama, last week the issue went to press without the Rademacher article. At the last moment the professor wired meekly that it was all a mistake; on rechecking. Mathematician Siegel had discovered a flaw (undisclosed) in the Rademacher reasoning. U.S. mathematicians felt much like the morning after a phony...
...German planes were knocked out in a single day of attacks by more than 6,000 Allied planes. The Luftwaffe apparently was flat on its back-812 of its planes had been splintered on their own fields. The total since April 1 was close to 3,000. General Carl A. Spaatz issued a special order of the day: the strategic air war had been won; hereafter U.S. heavy bombers would range on tactical missions...