Word: fines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knautschke, a resident of the Berlin Zoo, is a fine, broad-backed figure of a hippo, but he was lonely until his helpers discovered a mate for him: a female hippo in the Leipzig Zoo, named Crete. There was one hitch: Leipzig is in Germany's Russian zone...
...fine that Joe, the most popular player alive, was having his "day." To the 69,551 in Yankee Stadium, it was even better that he was back in the lineup. The Yankees, who had held onto first place since the very first day of the season despite 70 injuries to their players, had fallen a game behind. In one of the most frenetic baseball weeks since 1908,* Joe McCarthy's Boston Red Sox had taken over first place. In the National League, Burt Shotton's Brooklyn Dodgers had been suddenly handed a one-game lead when...
...local minister. The pictures on the four following pages are examples of what he meant. Along with 24 others, they are full-page illustrations for the big (9 in. by 12 in.) book, In Our Image* edited by Harte and published this week. The 26 stories, told in the fine, measured English of the King James version, were chosen by 56-year-old Publisher Harte with the help of seven leading Protestant clergymen...
...Fantasy's first 70,000-copy issue, Boucher and McComas have presented a fine array of chills & thrills, including a story by H. H. Holmes, touted as "a master of evil" (but not also identified as Editor Boucher himself). Though off to a good start, Fantasy faces a major problem : science is making such rapid strides that it is hard for fiction writers to keep ahead of the scientists...
Nevertheless, said Holman, "as members of an industry that provided four-fifths of the private investment made by American interests abroad last year-totaling $1.5 billion-we are disturbed by the worsening of the investment climate in many countries." Holman thought that Point Four was certainly a fine idea-if it could be made to work. So did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This week it gave qualified support to the program-provided that the nations receiving the aid sign treaties "assuring fair treatment of American capital...