Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Postwar U.S. readers may get not only more and cheaper books but better ones. Wrote Publisher Bennett Cerf (Random House) in the New York Post last fortnight: "The creation of a great reprint and chain-store market simply means that a deserving book will earn far more than it ever did before. The added bait may even dim the siren song of Hollywood in young authors' ears and persuade them to concentrate, as they did long, long ago, on making their every book the very best that they know, how to write...
Author Werfel's personal credo: everything in the universe has meaning. The world is "a creation of spirit and love," and man can realize God's existence without being able to understand His Being, "just as one might touch a mountain without being able to embrace...
...damage done to the deceptively lifelike reproductions can never be repaired, for with the death of Rudolph Blaschka in 1936 passed the secret of their creation. Leopold Blaschka, founder of the remarkable process, allowed no one but his son to enter their Dresden workshop and never permitted his method to be put on paper...
...From London came a report that the U.S., Britain and Russia had opened conversations with Turkey about the Dardanelles. The Turks would probably have to make one of two concessions: 1) demilitarization of the straits to give Russia unchallenged outlet from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean; 2) the creation of a small Dardanelles-Bosporus state to be administered by an international body...
...Creation of a national assembly and constitutional government, bringing full democracy to China before...