Word: experts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army. Once he decided to do it, he made a quick, sharp campaign of it. On Feb. 7 of this year, in his quarters at Fort Myer, Va., he started to dictate at a clip of 5,000 words a day, pacing steadily as he talked. After his shorthand expert had left for the day, he corrected the first draft, began to add to it in longhand, and soon found himself working on until 3 a.m. By March 24-46 days later-he was finished...
...hunter who kills another, stiff penalties for those guilty of careless or drunken hunting. Besides this year's high toll, Feast had another good reason: three years ago his 19-year-old son lost an eye in a field accident. Said Feast: "He was hunting with an expert, yet [the expert] got two pheasants and my boy with one shot...
According to Dr. Leland Cunningham, comet expert of the University of California, "McGann-Paraskevopoulos" (official name: 1948-L) is now moving away from the sun, having passed closest to it on Oct. 27. It is about 50 million miles from the earth and will not come any nearer. Its tail is more than 15° long, 30 times the breadth of the full moon, and its head is estimated to be of the second magnitude in brightness (this is brighter than all except 41 stars in the sky). The comet will fade slowly, but it will appear a little earlier...
...credit side, the M.E.s found that A.P. stories are getting fresher and brighter. Readability Expert Dr. Rudolf Flesch, hired to teach clear and simple writing (TIME, Feb. 16), said that the A.P.'s output is less monotonous than a year ago, although it still needs sprucing up. Best of all, the A.P. seemed to be growing aware that the changing nature of the news is forcing it to report not only what happened...
...Perhaps not on the stage . . ." When it seemed that a certain man was trying to snub her at London's Savoy, legend has it that she called: "Hello, dahling, I'm sorry you don't recognize me with my clothes on." Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, the expert on sex statistics, recently tried to get an interview with her, but the matter was dropped when Tallulah agreed "on condition that I can ask you the same questions." Visiting the White House on the heels of a group of reformed women prisoners, she made Franklin Roosevelt roar with laughter...