Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Widener maps bear the tales of adventurers and explorers as well as that of modern explorers. A colonial expedition led by Filson charted parts of Kentucky after George Clark quieted the Shawnee. The map displays Daniel Boone's comment: "an exceeding good performance." Another early American map, drawn by John Smith in 1614, locates and names Plymouth Rock six years before the Pilgrims "found...
...survivors of the surrender of Bataan, I would like to comment on the new Soldier's Code: It is 13 years late and falls somewhat short of its mark. If our officers had behaved like officers and our enlisted men like soldiers, the deaths in prison camps located in the Philippines and Japan would have been 75% less . . . The very large portion of our deaths in these camps was due directly to poor discipline...
...visit to England without so much as a glimpse of his princess: neither he nor Margaret attended last week's classic St. Leger horse race at which it was hoped they might meet and exchange, at the very least, a significant look. The Court Calendar noted without comment the visit to Balmoral Castle of Britain's Attorney General, which led the Associated Press into excited speculation that perhaps he and the Queen were talking over how to get Margaret married. English editors, who know more than they print, did not fall for such speculation: they know that...
...irony of the situation somehow escaped the British press, which would almost certainly have let go a volley of criticism if the same incidents had occurred in the U.S. The Russians' reception in Canada went without comment in London last week, reported only by the Daily Express in a six-line item...
...United Lutheran Church of heresy charges similar to those for which the Rev. George P. Crist Jr. of Durham was convicted (TIME, Aug. 8). The committee found "obvious confusion, immaturity and inconsistencies in Gerberding's position and recommended administrative action by the synod. Pastor Grist's comment: "The trial was considerably different from mine...