Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wright, who was born in Los Angeles and has spent almost all of his life there (except for a hitch as a U.S. Navy pilot and a TIME correspondent in London) can recall the time when "there was little more than wheatfields beyond Western Avenue." He found that the Los Angeles story was a rediscovery of his hometown. For Ed Rees, a native of Delaware, it was a firsthand discovery. After talking to architects, sociologists, county supervisors, meteorologists, etc. he found that some of his pet theories about...
...until the final bell. Someone asked Promoter Joe Louis who he thought had won. "Ain't sayin'," muttered Joe, "I didn't pay to get in." For their $246,546, the customers did not see anybody Charles' seriously manager, hit the who floor fainted in except the Ezzard ring as his lackluster leather-thrower was being proclaimed the new heavyweight cham pion of the world (National Boxing Asso ciation version, not good in New York or London). It was enough to make fans sigh even for the half-good old days of Primo Carneca...
...Hooked on an 18-oz. lemonwood rod, the maddened marlin streaked ahead of the Schmidts' 40-ft. Cayman II flashing high in the sun. When John turned the boat around, the fish headed for the bottom. Said Louis, "For three hours I had my leg hooked around everything except the keel...
...only one-half of their present national church tax (under the present law, most Swedes must contribute about 1% of their income to help support the state church). ¶Nonmembers of the state church, currently barred from all cabinet posts, would be eligible for any cabinet posts except those dealing with education and religion...
Skimmer. In Tacoma, Wash., Mr. & Mrs. Clark G. Seabloom returned home to find their cottage ransacked, but nothing missing except the cream from the tops of four bottles of milk...