Word: carr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northwestward between Bermuda and Puerto Rico, a hurricane was boring in on the U.S. coast. From San Juan, the Navy's "hurricane hunters" skewered through its lethal winds in four-motored planes, probing for new weather information. On one flight last week, the United Press's Milton Carr went along. His account...
Dieo!. Elliott Carr Cutler, 59, one of the nation's top heart and brain surgeons, a wartime brigadier general, successor to the late, famed Harvey Gushing as Moseley Professor at Harvard Medical School; of cancer; in Brookline, Mass...
Kunkel faced them as calmly as William Cody facing the thundering buffalo of the western plains. He smiled, he shook hands, amid a sea of spring hats, he nodded. When Mrs. David Carr Sr., vice president of the Councils, showed him her knees which she had bruised slipping in a puddle, he made no audible reply. When one constituent kissed him and dozens squealed happily, he just braced himself. When sightseeing buses finally took the 800 off on a tour of the city, including the zoo, he walked away steadily and surely...
...corroborated by Miss Lyons and other people who have to take the guff on the other sides of the record counters in the Square. They are caught between the record companies, which pay little or no attention to orders, sending out what they please, and wrathful customers whom Ed Carr at Briggs and Briggs parodied recently as complaining about "the bourgeois practice of pressing a thousand copies of a hundred items instead of a hundred copies of a thousand items." Despite the irate customers and the indifferent record companies, though, sales are up 200 percent over pre-war figures...
Freedom & Equality. He placed his principles against such theories as those of the left-wing English scholar, Edward Hallett Carr, who wrote: "Equality in the abstract is purely formal... Even equality before the law may be a mockery when the law is framed by members of a privileged class. Freedom itself can be equally formal. Freedom to choose or refuse a job is unreal if freedom to refuse is merely tantamount to freedom to starve." It is a powerful and seductive line...