Word: marked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just 40 minutes later, Katterman came back in the 880 and set such a withering pace that he was all alone at the finish. His time, the new meet mark, was a magnificent...
...victory in the Senate debate seemed to go to the advocates of middle-of-the-road mildness, but crusty John McClellan's half-defeated thrust to put some bite into the bill left a mark of realism on the measure-a sign that the U.S. is starting to demand from organized labor responsibilities to match the rights and privileges hard...
...Spray (1950 pop. 5,500). Though Luther quit seventh grade to work in the mill (50? a day), he later saved $62.50, at 17 went off to work his way through Chapel Hill (class of '19). After college, he resolved to go back home and make his mark in the mills, in 17 years worked his way up to production manager of Marshall Field & Co.'s textile empire...
From Hannibal to Space. Inventor Lear's restlessness hit early. Born in Hannibal, Mo., Mark Twain's home town, he enlisted in the Navy at 16, was made a radio instructor at the Great Lakes Training Station. He learned so much that, discharged at 18, he soon opened his own radio consulting and manufacturing firm. Among his early jobs: designing a special coil that made possible the first practical commercial auto radio. He learned to fly, and in 1930 opened an aviation-electronics business that turned out the first practical light-plane radio. After World War II, Lear...
...censorship yap since James Joyce's Ulysses was declared literature by Federal Judge John M. Woolsey in 1933. Into the bookshops goes an unexpurgated edition (Grove Press; 368 pp.; $6), the first ever published in the U.S. It comes forearmed with assurances by pundits (Edmund Wilson, Jacques Barzun, Mark Schorer, Archibald MacLeish) that Lady Chatterley is not only a decent but an important book. And the publishers, listening for the bugling of the censorship hounds, are ready with an advance printing of 30,000 copies...