Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigations can be handled by an intelligent, competent and hard-working group more interested in facts than in headlines. Its well-documented reports, filed with the proper authorities, contrast strikingly with the ill-founded alarums filling Dies' daily dish to the press boys. If Congress could find a man closer to the calibre of LaFollette to run the committee tracking down saboteurs, and if it would at the same time limit that committee's work to points of genuine danger, something more satisfactory than truths everyone knows and half-truths no one wants should result...
...point of nearest approach to the sun shifts each year. Calculations of classical Newtonian gravitation predict some shift, but not nearly so much as that actually observed. In desperation a French astronomer named Leverrier decided that the rest of the shift must be due to an unseen planet even closer to the sun than Mercury. Leverrier called it "Vulcan." He looked long and hard for it. Once a doctor peering through a telescope thought he saw Vulcan. He and Leverrier announced the discovery, were given banquets and medals for their find. But they never saw it again, nor did anyone...
...doorstep of those internists who permit their patients to get into such a deplorable state in which only the 'Hand of the Almighty' could save them. Would Dr. Andresen let them all die? . . . I am sorry that my remarks offended [him] . . . I simply asked for a closer cooperation...
...Among magazines, TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE are"too vital"to be"analyzed." Nevertheless Howe gives a short chapter to them, larded with numerous gossip-begotten errors of detail but closer to the truth than most accounts. Astonishing remark: that because Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce were in the Low Countries in the spring of 1940, "the editorial policy of TIME promptly underwent a sea change...
...serve to keep the tailors and their "church school" clientele "a nice congenial group." This "congenial group" motto is the real secret of the custom tailor. It is a group made up of boys who have known each other as children, gone to the same schools, become even closer in college and who will stick together in the business world after college. Chipp, Press and Ross sell them blazers while they are still in school, follow up this acquaintanceship from the time they graduate till they die . . . and more often than not, a man has mortgaged his soul...