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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interpretive' reporting which fails to draw the line between objective and subjective, between responsible and well-established fact and what the reporter or editor wishes were the fact . . . No wonder that too many fall back on the incontrovertible objective fact that the Honorable John P. Hoozis said, colon, quote-and never mind whether he was lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Whole Truth? | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Kelley's review of Tito and the Cominform by Adam B. Ulan is a little better. For most of the review, however, Kelley merely repeats Ulan's theses. He also seems to have a deadly fascination for the semi-colon, a choice punctuation he uses at least ten times. This plus a few colons makes the review difficult and often run-on reading. The other review, on Ghost and Flesh by William Goven, contains some excellent critical writing...

Author: By Michael Maccory, | Title: The Advocate | 5/29/1952 | See Source »

...Evidence Here." The death certificate reported that Elizabeth May Ayres had died at 3:40 p.m. of "chronic myocarditis, chronic nephritis, carcinoma of the colon." Dr. Thomas L. Chiffelle, who was pathologist at Yale medical school at the time, testified that her body had been received a few hours after death and was soon embalmed. Said Pathologist Chiffelle : his examination did not confirm the causes of death listed on the certificate. Because of the embalming fluid, he could not make a satisfactory study of the blood in her body. Neither he nor a toxicologist could say what had caused Lizzie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Doctor & the Spinster | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...honor Simon Bolivar, Bogota's Teatro Colon scheduled a new French play about El Libertador's fight for freedom, entitled Montserrat. The Ministry of Education gave its blessing; President Laure-ano Gomez himself went to the opening-night performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Viva la Llbertad! | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...well-known and undisputed fact that there has never been a summa thesis in the last ten years which has not had a colon in the title. Many of these theses have had two colons in the title. the significance of this fact cannot be denied: Harvard college is colon-conscious. It is far more important to say it with a colon is scholarly. Consequently, the first mechanical aid is the constant and overbearing use of the colon. A colon is the difference between a C and a B in a term paper, between a cum and a magna...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

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