Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time." The defendants seemed to be increasingly bored. One day ex-Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, in a stained suit, unshaven, his jowls sagging, sank from his crutches into a chair and picked up a copy of LIFE. Suddenly he started. The number was two years old; it contained a famous picture of himself, impeccably attired in top hat and morning coat, signing Japan's surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. At that moment, Lieut. Colonel Aubrey Kenworthy, U.S. officer in charge of the prisoners, passed. "Haven't you seen these pictures before?" he asked. Shigemitsu shook his unkempt head...
John Calvin, who was barely 27 when he sent to the printer his famous Institutes in 1535. But, says McNeill, he never substantially altered his doctrine thereafter. An ardent humanist before what he called his "sudden conversion" to Protestantism, he carried his love of truth for its own sake over into his religious teaching: "If we hold that the Spirit of God is the one fountain of truth, we shall neither reject nor despise the truth itself, wherever it appears, unless we wish to be contemptuous of the Spirit of God." Of his central doctrinal position he wrote: "Predestination...
...Song of the Flea, Songs and Dances of Death. Then, after a last desperate effort to make money by touring Russia as accompanist for a singer, he collapsed. Finally put in a hospital early in 1881, he lived only long enough for Artist Ilya Repin to finish his famous drunkard's-nose portrait...
...Bernard's nerve was famous. While still at Oxford, he inhaled carbon monoxide to test its effect on the body and made notes of his sensations (he found them unpleasant). Once he climbed down a manhole in London's Redcross Street to check on gas that had caused a workman's death. When he accidentally swallowed a culture of meningitis germs in a hospital laboratory, he reported: "I just carried...
...what Parkman missed as they are for the precocious talent with which he described what interested him. He was only 17 when he made his first entries, but he had already decided to become an historian. At 23 he made his tour of the Oregon Trail, wrote his most famous (but far from his best) book during the next three years. The Oregon Trail journal, as Editor Wade points out, is better as history, and more readable, than the book written from it. The reason: illness and near-blindness forced Parkman to dictate, a method which soon became as "easy...