Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make facts & figures incorrect. This burgeoning growth was demonstrated by our experiences with the seven photographers who worked for eight weeks taking the color shots for the picture supplement accompanying the story. Having chosen a location for a specific shot or a panoramic view, they were likely to find, on returning to make the picture, that a skeleton framework or a new building had gone up, blocking the view...
Starting with "every hope of working out a solution," McCloy would find his British and French, opposite numbers in a similar mood. General Sir Brian Robertson, now to be in high commissioner's mufti, has been firm and unruffled as British military governor. Scholarly, 62-year-old Andre François-Poncet, Ambassador to Berlin from 1931 to 1938, is one of those surprisingly numerous Frenchmen who want Germany as a good neighbor rather than as a chained foe. He has written: "With a little imagination, a little courage and good will, the problem of Germany can be solved...
...Pals. Hunt hotly denied that he had ever used any influence. He was "just an errand boy," he said, helping small businessmen to find their way around Washington's federal bureaus. Of course, he knew Harry Vaughan and had entertained him at a few cocktail parties, but he wouldn't think of asking him, or his other friends, to influence Government contracts. Though Harry Vaughan readily admitted their friendship, many of the other "friends" smiling down from Hunt's office walls promptly said that they didn't know him. They pointed out that it was easy...
...readers will find themselves facing this uncomfortable decision again & again as they read (Percy) Wyndham Lewis* passionate hymn of praise to the face of their country. For Lewis, who once edited a ferocious avant-garde magazine entitled Blast, is Britain's quirkiest, most anarchical man of letters, and his point of view is always so unconventional that most people would feel safer at being in his bad books than in his good ones. In The Apes of God (1932), Lewis flailed phony British "culture" with rip-roaring violence; in Time and Western Man (1928) he sought to "heal...
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...