Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curious to know what our correspondents in other countries must carry to cover the postwar news, we asked them to empty their pockets and tell us what they found. Here is a typical summary, from Fred Gruin, TIME correspondent in Nanking...
...hard to persuade these rather timid, frightened Chicagoans to come as Rigolettos and Carmens, but I think they will see the light. . . ." Tickets went unsold at $50 a couple, then went unsold at $25. The project was sunk without a trace. Miss Maxwell's last words: "For some curious reason, which is quite inexplicable to me, apparently the public did not want to come...
...folk stories that were told to George when he was a Georgia boy. The principal characters include wolves, princesses, witches and giants-none of whom seems far removed from the worlds of Hans Christian Andersen or La Fontaine, all of whom combine to give this collection a childish and curious poetry...
Whether Molotov has considered this implication or not, his prophecy that the elimination of the veto would mean the end of the United Nations applies to the idea with curious irony. Such a step as proportional representation would indeed mean the end of the United Nations--a United Nations whose Statement of Purposes contains the utterly anachronistic "sovereign equality of all member nations"--but an end, despite the difficulty of its attainment, that would be a new beginning...
Bohr stressed the curious paradoxes and blind alleys measuring the location and momentum of electrons by either the classical rules of mechanics or Planck's Quantum Theory. He concluded however, with an optimistic outlook towards future discovery...