Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice was made finally in late November, and the story turned over to TIME'S Special Projects department, a division set up last year to fill a long felt need by Managing Editor T. S. Matthews. Its function is to handle well in advance of publication certain stories which by their nature obviously require a particular seriousness and deliberation of treatment not always possible in the hurly-burly of reporting the week's news of the world [e.g., Laurence Olivier in Henry V (TIME, April 8), Iowa Farmer Gus Kuester (TIME, April 29), Eugene O'Neill (TIME...
Presently the classroom began to fill. Eight legs of dark gray-flannel, one tweed-skirt, and five moving tongues completed Vag's row. He leaned back and looked around the room, his eyes following waving hands, his ears following friendly greetings, and his nose following the feminine scents wafting up and down the aisle...
...authorized for purchase. Before the war, the faculty could do little to help students in the search for the printed word because the problem was basically financial. Now, however, the task is not to locate the money needed for book purchases, but to search out a store able to fill the demand for popular texts...
George Hauptfuhrer will be at center, and Captain Saul Mariaschin and Bill Henry fill the guard positions. The Varsity suffered two successive Ivy League defeats immediately before exams intervened, and tonight's game will be the first of three this week for the Crimson. Northeastern will be at the Indoor Athletic Building on Thursday night, and the team travels to Princeton for a return league game on Saturday. PROBABLE LINEUPS HARVARD B. C. Page lf Kenney Brady rf Letvinchuk Hauptfuhrer c Morgenthaler Mariaschin lg Sharry Henry rg Carr...
...fill his column on a dull day, bright Ian Mackay of the London News Chronicle listed ten men whom he thought people might still be talking about 100 years from now.* Last week his paper asked four prominent Britons which of his ten would get their votes. Bernard Shaw would vote only for Composer Jean Sibelius, so Sibelius was the only unanimous immortal. (The other three pickers agreed on both Shaw and Sibelius.) Wrote Shaw: "As for Churchill and the other political gentlemen-it would be rash to include them...