Word: grained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This place is a swirl of rumors, propaganda and outright lies from which it is most difficult to extract the grain of truth. All except eyewitness reports by competent and independent correspondents should be treated with the greatest reserve. Any objective account from any side seems out of the question. There are three main sources of information...
Born to Poll. The methods which George Gallup uses are as old as those used by grain samplers, cotton testers or tea tasters. Gallup's contribution has been to apply those methods commercially to everything and anything in the world. A friend has said of him: "He wishes he had invented the ruler. Since someone beat him to it, Gallup has spent his life thinking up new ways to use it." It is almost true to say that George Gallup was born to be a pollster...
...read greens: "If you can see a shine on the green ... it means that you are putting down the grain of the green. The ball is going to travel very fast . . . When I see a shine on the grass on the right side in lining up a putt, I play to the right even if I don't see a break in the green in that direction ... I know the grain is running from right to left." CJ "When playing mountain courses, remember that putts will always break away from the mountains. That is true, even...
Little Mammal, What Now? Even if the bomb falls, muses Author Toynbee there is still a grain of hope. The people most likely .to survive and to be capable of salvaging "some fraction of the present heritage of mankind" are the Negrito pygmies of Central Africa -a race "said by our anthropologists to have an unexpectedly pure and lofty conception of the nature of God and of God's relation...
...impromptu invasion. Customs officials discovered a cargo of 8,000 guns, 4,000 cases of ammunition and one Communist agitator aboard a ship from Yugoslavia. On the same day, the sooth U.S. relief ship arrived. Il Giornale d'ltalia headlined the moral: "HELP FOR ITALY. FROM THE U.S., GRAIN AND COAL. FROM YUGOSLAVIA, ARMS AND AMMUNITION...