Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other times, there were side trips to Wheaton (a mere 23 miles) and a sprint trial to Radcliffe on 1890 vintage two-wheelers. Along about 1939, the powers that cycle got together and decided on the Wellesley race as an annual affair, and it has been held, mostly after the vernal equinox ever since, with the exception of the war years...
...attacks on Laski and on "Harvard Reds" aren't even quarter-truths; they are mere offhand slander, liberally applied with a brush which has been carefully constructed by Thomas, Mundt, and Co. Unless people start thinking about the manufacturers before swinging such paintbrushes, what now looks like ridiculous name calling may gain the stature of truth in the public mind. And that would put us right back on the end of that springboard, teetering...
Divorced. Prince Aly Khan, 37, well-heeled son of the Aga Khan ("Wealthiest Man in the World"); and Princess Aly Khan, 40, the former Mrs. Joan Yarde-Buller Guinness of London; by mutual consent, after nearly 13 years of marriage, two children; in Paris. After a Moslem divorce (mere public proclamation), the Prince will be free to marry his great & good friend, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth...
...coverage of the un-American Activities Committee was slanted from the first whack of Parnell Thomas' gavel. The burst of front-page copy which followed Lawrence Duggan's death and the one-sided stories of the slander thrown at Dr. Edward U. Condon by the Thomas Committee have been mere items in the "crusade...
People who stop to looks for facts will find, in 99 cases of 100, mere allegations, totally unbacked by fact. But as long as papers send out their staffs to make anti-Red news, there will be a stream of allegations. This will convince the majority of readers--the ones who don't stop to look twice--by sheer sustained invective if nothing else. It will give the Legion and the Klan, which don't worry about facts, new material for their screaming accusations. It can color the thinking of the intelligent to a point where the quarter-truths...