Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the foreign diplomats still assigned to Nationalist China hurried from Canton to Hong Kong. The British crown colony alerted its 40,000-man garrison, waited nervously for the arrival of the new Red neighbors. Hong Kong authorities let it be known that they were eager to resume trade with and air service to Canton just as soon as its new Communist masters said the word...
...Lake Success, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinslcy found something that Russians and Americans have in common. Switching briefly from his own language to English to make a quotation, he told a U.N. committee: "I trust you will excuse my barbarous English, but it is well known that English pronunciation often cannot be mastered, not only by Russians, but also by the Americans...
...completed section of stained glass, Matisse's working model of the chapel did actually seem filled with fiery light. Had he known it would come out so well? "No," said Matisse, "I didn't-I'm not a bluffer. Emotions within us lead us to create. The artist works and arrives at a moment when there is an explosion ... I can't say why in this case the colors happened to be so subtle and harmonious...
Three times in the past five years, Presbrey has "just been riding by" in a streetcar when million-dollar fires broke out in the sprawling industrial area known as the Midway, between Minneapolis and St. Paul. In 1945, while watching a St. Paul movie one evening, Presbrey stirred nervously in his seat, decided that he had better go out in the street and have a look around. He walked right into a $500,000 department-store fire...
...unsportsmanlike plot, involving a low trick on fish, is being cooked up by Dr. Konrad Kreutzer, a well-known German physicist. According to an official report last week in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Foreign Commerce Weekly, Dr. Kreutzer put two electrodes in the water of Lake Constance, passed a current between them, and observed (as had been observed before) that fish in such a spot tend to head toward the positive electrode. He also observed that an increase in the current made their tails wiggle. This gave him his big idea. When a fish's tail...