Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writer. TIME was fully aware of Chambers' political background, believed in his conversion, and has never since had reason to doubt it. In the past nine years Chambers has written and edited TIME stories in such varied fields as Cinema, Religion, Books, and Foreign News; in the judgment of his fellow workers, he has proved himself an outstanding journalist. TIME believes that Chambers' penetrating knowledge of the ways of Communism, at home and abroad, has been extremely valuable to TIME-and to TIME'S readers...
...financier. They worked together, dined together, and made money together. Then Brooks seemed to lose his touch. Watkins was forced to supply more & more of the working capital. Deals went bad. Brooks tried to recoup and failed. In 1939, Watkins reluctantly called it quits. Watkins got a court judgment for $72,000 he had put up, slapped attachments for $75,000 on Brooks's house. Now other creditors were badgering...
...Wilhelmina grew up in solitude, and did her best to spare her daughter that chilling ordeal. Instead of skating by herself on a guarded rink, Juliana did her skating with other kids. At 18, she entered Leiden University. She was a popular and adequate student, if not brilliant. Her judgment showed a Dutch caution that sometimes bordered on ludicrous understatement. Once she read a book by Leon Trotsky. Her opinion: "Trotsky is certainly a man of strong views...
...tribute says more for 70-year-old Lord Dunsany's generosity than it does for his literary judgment. Of his own writing, Lord Dunsany once said that it dealt with "the mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins." Bridie Steen deals with a more recognizable geography (the scene is the Irish border county of Fermanagh), but it is a land where sentiment is surrounded by sentimentality...
...those details and many more you would have to question, observe, evaluate, boil down and put two and two together until, in your best judgment, after your best efforts, they made four. It would take a lot of time and hard work, but what I like about working for TIME is to see a sweated-out story like that appear in the magazine. It makes you feel that you've done a real job of journalism...