Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Transport Command, pilot of the Sacred Cow and final judge of when she can venture out. Pointing out that the presidential C-54 has greater power, range and operating ceiling than ordinary commercial airliners, Colonel Myers said the flight was "routine," that he was amazed at the adverse comment. But the critics, knowing that some pilots would gladly try flying the Hump in a blizzard just for the hell of it, were not silenced...
...ever before been extended in peacetime. The U.S. conditions, after all, were aimed "at the restoration of multilateral trade, which is a system upon which British commerce essentially depends." Lord Beaverbrook had argued that Britain could get along by trading in her own sterling area. Keynes's crushing comment: "I have never heard of statistics one-fiftieth part so phoney...
...Lord Brabazon, "We shall soon be told that a multiple drill has sex appeal.") Two letter writers thought Picasso's pictures should be kept from children. Another critic was not so worried. He reported overhearing a six-year-old, who had intently studied a swollen, mysterious Picasso abstraction, comment: "Why, there's a hippopotamus...
...ease the brooders' minds once & for all, Captain Lowell T. Coggeshall, tropical disease expert of the University of Michigan, took a poll of mumu convalescents at an Army hospital near Klamath Falls, Ore. His finding, reported without comment in California and Western Medicine: mumu men have fathered twice as many babies as wormless veterans...
...Chicago Sun, deep in the red, it was a red-letter day that saw its first A.P. copy (TIME, Dec. 10) roll out of clacking teletype printers. He was still being politely charitable about his rival, the Chicago Tribune's autocratic Robert Rutherford McCormick. Field's comment: "He runs a very efficient paper...