Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely fictional character he is," wrote Sagendorph, "but . . . frankly, Abe Weatherwise is a mainstay around the office." The Almanac had left Abe's forecasts out just once, in 1938: sales flopped, subscribers howled, and it will never happen again...
...unusually conceited for an owl, but he can't help thinking that they're not so wise as he is. Why don't they get rid of a few of the duller professors, in keeping with God's Law of course, just to see what would happen...
Most U.S. military observers had thought that the Reds would crush Chiang Kai-shek's forces at Suchow, and take his capital, Nanking, in a matter of days. When this did not happen last week, they could hardly believe...
...three current international conferences-on high-frequency radio and plastic surgery1-also watched the comet calmly. But not the third. Declared Wing Chao, president of the International Brotherhood of Magicians: "I graduated as an astrologer in China, and I speak with authority: the most tragic things will happen in Asia and in Europe." Nodded his colleague, Lee Fu: "Things are so bad I dare not speak of them...
...some of the white parents. At an open meeting in the high school gym, Mrs. Arthur Farrell protested: "We are being discriminated against just as much as our colored friends ... I have a child in the high school who planned to be an engineer. What's going to happen to him?" Replied School Board Member A. W. Walker: "Just take it as a stroke of bad luck that couldn't be helped. [Anyway] your son may be drafted into the Army...