Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closed Shop. In St. Louis, Mr. & Mrs. George H. Pring returned home in time to find a burglar leaving with $530 in cash and jewelry, asked how he got in and received a guarded reply: "That's a professional secret; if I tell you, you'll go out and rob houses...
...sold out the day it reaches the newsstands. In this beautiful but remote place, which is Marrakech, TIME keeps me in touch with the rest of the world. And the other day, having to cross the Atlas Mountains to Taroudant to visit a Moroccan businessman, I was pleased to find on my night table the latest copy of your International edition...
...advised the newsmen to bone up on the history of the Alien and Sedition laws of the 1790s. They would be surprised, he said, at the parallel. If they would begin reading about the administration of John Adams and go on through Thomas Jefferson's they would find out all about...
...nine-man General Advisory Committee agreed with his conclusion, he said. As for the supposed risk involved in sending radioactive isotopes overseas for research, he was sure that there was nothing to worry about. Even if the Russians managed to get some, said Oppenheimer, they wouldn't find them much help in making atomic weapons. Like wide-eyed students enthralled by their favorite professor, committee members thanked their witness and apologized for keeping him so long...
Cripps, silent and icy-calm, is caught between powerful forces. He is not going to find an easy...