Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apologies. Like the U.S. Commission on Freedom of the Press (TIME, March 31, 1947), the 17-member Royal Commission was mainly composed of nonjournalists; it was headed by Sir David Ross, provost (now emeritus) of Oxford's Oriel College and a distinguished Aristotelian scholar. As Britain's press lords paraded before the commission, they made no apologies...
...Like a Beautiful Day in May-not to be confused with Un bel dl DiMaggio (see SPORT...
...Like any other news service, Tass, the Russian agency, has reporters in most world capitals. There the resemblance stops. Tass's chief clients are Russian newspapers, its reporters are frequently Communists, and they often seem more interested in keeping the Kremlin in formed than they do about making a Pravda deadline. For this reason, their presence at off-the-record press conferences has sometimes worried officials of Western nations who prefer to keep their confidences off-the-record from Moscow...
...take motion pictures (spectroheliokinemato-grams) which show the sun covered with patches, streaks and mottlings, most of them in motion. The pattern of the mottled background often changes completely in 15 minutes. "Motion pictures of the surface," says Dr. Menzel, "present a sort of 'crawly' appearance-like white worms in a pile of carrion...
More spectacular still are the "prominences": vast, arching flames of incandescent gas ejected with enormous speed (see cut). They rise at 400,000 m.p.h. and soar to hundreds of thousands of miles above the surface. Other prominences appear out of nowhere, high above the surface, and seem to fall like water from a hose. Some of the material in prominences and other solar disturbances may be blown as far as the earth, causing the electrical storms that knock radios haywire...