Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone could hear it. The colleague, translating from English into Spanish, had read about half of the story-amid considerable hilarity and joshing -when Somoza took over. Saying that the translation was not good enough, he proceeded to read the rest of the story himself, punctuating its adverse comment with his own remarks. He was happy to appear on TIME's cover and delighted that the issue would be on Nicaraguan newsstands on the 16th anniversary of his assuming command of the Guardia Nacional...
Just a line to set a few matters straight and to comment on how difficult it is to keep the record straight after one is away. It doesn't make any difference to me what you print at Harvard; I won't be coming back there, first, because of all your lovely publicity, I guess I have been expunged or whatever the process is, and second because I have no desire to return in the first place. However when you gave my story to the United Press you probably get me in serious trouble with the Federal authorities...
...backboards are slated to get their baptism under fire Wednesday night when Harvard opens its home season against Northeastern. Barclay declined to comment on whether the Crimson would give the visitors the glassy stare...
While it would seem inappropriate for me to comment in general on the article under Education in the Nov. 8 issue of TIME, for whose veracity and good sense responsibility must as always rest with the Editors, there is one point which will surely arouse in the whole scientific community, and in men of learning everywhere, so profound a revulsion that I cannot pass it in silence. That has to do with the evaluation of Einstein, and of his place in science, which no time, no age, and no frivolity can alter, and of the debt that...
...York Times of Germany. No paper has greater influence; only Die Welt (circ. 900,000), sponsored by the British military government, is bigger. The Zeitung subscribes to A.P., U.P., I. N.S. and Reuters, and most of its six oversized pages are devoted to news and thoughtful comment on world events; even a good Munich murder has to fight for space. Until the Russians banned Western zone publications last summer, the Zeitung sold 300,000 copies in the Soviet zone alone. Now its circulation (at 6? a copy) is 840,000 in the U.S., British and French zones...