Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's report made such bad reading that even habitually sanguine Franklin Roosevelt could think of no comment beyond predicting general priorities on steel. Next day priorities came. OPM's Stettinius announced that he and OPACS's Leon Henderson would allocate 75% of steel production (the share not now going to defense and Britain) among competing civilian needs. Graceful living was clearly due for another shock...
Harvard's own Information Pleaser turned in a snappy answer on a query about a lawn-mower, but was tripped on a question about books. I wasn't well enough prepared. It's Yale for me next year," was his only comment...
...Networks to the Fly." Then radio men turned homeward, determined to get a Congressional investigation of FCC, but more than a little leery of what such an investigation might turn into. They saw no help from their onetime great friend, Franklin Roosevelt. When reporters had asked him to comment on the scrap he waved an airy hand, said there were more important things to think about. And the new week's news was worrisome: Congress suddenly got ready to give Trust Buster Thurman Arnold the unprecedented sum of $750,000-just about enough to investigate radio, observers guessed...
Leaning too heavily on the glass covering which sheltered the exhibits an over-zealous Biology D student had come out of his daze to find himself staring at an equally wide and glassy-eyed speciman of early American lobster. "Pardon me," was his sole comment. "Think nothing of it," replied his victim...
...your editorial comment concerning Count Luckner in TIME, April 28, you stated: "the Count likes to tell people he is 72, then show he is still in the prime by tearing telephone books in two." This is just another example of German boasting based upon bluff. Anyone can tear a telephone book in two if he knows the trick, which is as follows: Crease the book in the center with the thumbs until a triangle is formed. Then pull directly backward...