Word: ever
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ever since Admiral Robert Edwin Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition in 1909, critics have disputed his claim to discovery of the North Pole. As late as 1929, long after Congress, the National Geographic Society and the encyclopedias had taken Peary's word for it, British Polar Scholar J. Gordon Hayes wrote a quarrelsome book to disprove that Peary had reached the Pole. Last week another critic...
...seemed high time people stopped regarding him as "something of a freak." It was true that he had played Liszt on the piano at 22 months, written a symphony at eight, received his A.B. from Yale at 14 to become New Haven's youngest grad ever (TIME, Oct. 29, 1945). Since then he had spent three years in earnest study with great Pianist Artur Schnabel. Now, at 18, Kenneth wanted to be judged, he said, "solely by the quality of my music...
...water. Theodora thought that she would have something special with her water from Hereford, where tooth decay is almost unknown, supposedly because of fluorine in the water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). She sewed up commercial rights with the town of Hereford ("For all the water we'll ever need"), and leased a 10,000-gallon railway tank car to haul the water to Hollywood at $1,100 a trip...
...Andrewes concludes that "almost everyone has his own foolproof technique for preventing or curing colds, yet colds are as numerous and as troublesome as ever . . . Even the most eminent men of science almost invariably lose all sense of critical judgment where their own colds are concerned...
Eleanor herself soon became chief executive in family matters. Her biggest problem, as she tells it, was her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt. She snaps with wifely irritation: "I doubt if as long as she lived she ever let [Franklin] leave the house without inquiring whether he was dressed warmly enough . . . She never accepted the fact of his independence and continued to the last to try to guide his life...