Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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. . . Your gossipy footnote on Tjarda [van Starkenborgh] and his driver, on his visit to Queen Wilhelmina, which seemed to substantiate your error and TIME'S implication-that because of Tjarda's "flight" he had incurred the wrath of the Queen-creates a further erroneous impression. Tjarda was rewarded...
19 Knife Wounds. In 1932, Marga decided to visit forbidden Mecca. Without further ado, she divorced her count and married a devout Moslem. As the couple started on their pilgrimage to the Holy City, her husband's tribe-resentful of his marriage to an infidel-kidnaped them both. For...
In Baltimore, Henry L Mencken, whose beery Christmas Story had been yanked off sale in Canada, was feeling better. A Canadian cinema producer had the rights to Mencken's A Neglected Anniversary (deadpan history of the bathtub, written some 30 years ago), and Mencken had a gratifying contract: in...
Professor Alfred S. Romer of Harvard was not so sure that Man would evolve so triumphantly. "If we were dinosaurs, back in the days of their greatness," he said, "we would probably have had similar thoughts (if we'd had brains to think them). The dinosaurs didn't...
The poll further showed that other recreational facilities in the college are felt to be "woefully inadequate." Specifically, "more music, ping-pong tables, theatrical productions, and lectures on popular subjects" were requested.