Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearson, though for different reasons. Mr. Roosevelt will not be a candidate in 1944, predicted the Montana Democrat, because "a definite Republican trend has set in and the President will be able to sense this far more quickly than any of his advisers." The Senator then threw a left hook; he doubted that any Democrat could be elected President in 1944, "unless Wendell Willkie is the Republican nominee...
...provide tough competition: on such big wartime stories as General Wavell's appointment as Viceroy of India and Sir Stafford Cripps's resignation from the British War Cabinet, both of which were handled on a "hold for release" basis, Reuters inexplicably scored first. Now, by either hook or crook, Reuters had done it again. Looking at the past, U.S. newsmen looked at their future prospects for Government-controlled news with foreboding...
...this particular hook-up, the record for the Navy side of the Radar school had been eight weeks. Apparently, the accelerated courses given here at Cruft laboratory seem to have had more than just a scholastic effect upon the student today...
...usually the most sumptuous ham. But big, courtly, iron-muscled Ole was the most assertive personality in Norway and one of the most assertive personalities outside it. Last fortnight the first full-length biography of Ole Bull was published by his granddaughter's husband, Mortimer Smith of Sandy Hook, Conn. (The Life of Ole Bull; Princeton University Press for the American-Scandinavian Foundation; $3). It is a fine, factual account of a large-gestured exhibitionist...
...time the North African landing sealed France's leaky borders, the school also had a brilliant French troupe known as the Ecole glibre des Hautes Etudes (Free School of Advanced Studies). Director Johnson's native faculty includes such stars as N.Y.U.'s ebullient, scrappy Philosopher Sidney Hook; Columbia's handsome, encyclopedic Art Historian Meyer Schapiro; Queens College's lively Sociologist Kimball (grandson of Brigham) Young...