Word: contrivedness
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Last week fog settled down a little closer around the darkling Axis. Herbert L. Matthews, Rome correspondent of the New York Times, one of the last newspapermen who contrived to cable anything from an Axis capital besides official communiques, was given ten days in which to get out of Italy...
Major Corcoran strongly admires Franklin Roosevelt and "that remarkable woman who is his wife," as strongly deprecates the U. S. male's rabbitlike divorcing habits, his "I-can-take-it creed." Of the touted U. S. vitality he remarks: "No one was ever less of a born go-getter...
Thousands of years ago, somewhere on the warm seacoasts of the North American continent, an Indian picked up a sea snail's shell, blew a tentative toot. He had a horn. Perhaps he did not catch on at once, but his horn was tuned naturally to a pentatonic (five...
Blandly the British Foreign Office took note of Minister Colban's protests, but did nothing about them. Last month Britain announced she would disregard the juridical role of the World Court at The Hague. Instead, she now recognizes the rule of reprisal: if Germany breaks a law, Britain will...
No thanks, then, for your handling of the Ohio State University (TIME, Jan. 22). Of course, we're proud of our "horse doctors," our "tooth doctors," proud, too, of our "service stations" activities on the side. But your choice of pictures and captions and your unfortunate selection of facts...