Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the result of his enterprise not only got him the first copy of the Yalta record; it forced the State Department to release the text to the press of the world. It also enabled the Times to perform a notable journalistic feat. While most other papers were carrying only sketchy Yalta stories, the Times set in type and printed the full text of the 200,000 -word Yalta Conference record, along with news stories, pictures and editorial comment. It ran nearly 32 full pages, the longest text the paper has ever run (second: the 15-page Pearl Harbor...
...child was obviously father to the madman. Hitler had a formidable capacity for divorcing himself from reality. As a youngster, he kept turning out sketches for grand new cities, planned to tear down half of Vienna and, incidentally, to convert its citizens from wine to a soft drink (a feat that the Fŭhrer, even at the height of his power, never accomplished). Sometimes, he meant to become a second Wagner, and once he started picking out an opera score on the piano ("I shall compose the music, and you will write it down," he told Kubizek...
...Kern, said a colleague last week, "it's been a long, uphill pull. He kept his equilibrium, which is no small feat in the Hearst empire." As general manager of the newspapers, Kern will have a chance to communicate his sense of equilibrium where it is needed most-on the Hearst company's balance sheet. Last week Hearst directors voted to pay no quarterly dividend, though they noted "a distinct improvement in earnings over last year," when nine-month losses ran to more than $1,000,000 (TIME...
...fruit of the Canary strawberry tree. Though Author Herrmann considers it only "possible" that America was reached even before Leif Ericson's 11th century voyage to Vinland, his stimulating and well-balanced chronicle of heroism, curiosity and restless greed leaves the reader with the feeling that such a feat was well within the powers of early...
Newly-elected captain Klapper won two out of three in the foil, a feat matched by Douglas Runnels and David Silbert in sabre and Philo Holcomb in epee...