Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paunchy, bespectacled John Vincent Lawless Hogan was a radio engineer long before the U.S. public thought of radio. For over ten years he has been deep in the development of radio facsimile, by which reproduced news pages roll out of a receiver in a reader's living room...
...invalid was enchanted. In 1901 Peter made his book debut accompanied by his brother and sisters Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail. In one of the simplest, shortest and fastest moving tales ever written (53 more-or-less declarative sentences, 27 colored pictures) the pastel-tinted miscreant Peter spent a lawless day, got into proper trouble, limped home a furry wreck but safe at last. And to sleep with him went every child who ever stole out of bounds to see for himself what was over the horizon...
...Dodecanese Islands there was hope. Since 1912 the patient sponge divers and herdsmen, the shipwrights and honey gatherers had watched their Italian masters strut in the bright Aegean sun. Since 1912 they had heard Vittorio Emanuele's ministers of state promise again & again to end the lawless stay and had seen those promises torn up. Greek in race, religion and language, they fought Italian efforts to Italianize them...
...four-day trial was attended by many a U.S. soldier of Mexican ancestry. A long line of plaintiffs' witnesses testified that Mexicans are: 1) dirty, 2) noisy, 3) lawless...
...Hill was a Texas Ranger 50 years ago, and he is chaplain of the Texas Rangers today. He left the saddle, the mesquite, the Rangers' campfire and their dogged trail of the lawless to become Texas' best-loved Presbyterian minister. . . . For years he was a missionary to Korea, his two boys and his wife accompanying...