Word: notes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...U.S.S.R. made major note of a minor mishap to the late Maxim Gorky. The weekly Literary Gazette recalled that in 1906 Traveler Gorky was thrown out of a Manhattan hotel when the Imperial Russian Embassy announced that his woman companion was not his wife. Furthermore, the Gazette snarled, his watch was stolen...
...keeper of the archives note well-and remember...
...presidential fact-finding board reported last week on the trouble. The board made no recommendations. It sidestepped the nature of hazards but did note that X-10 actually had a lower accident rate than the other two plants...
...Communists were in a tight spot. Comrade Tito's government fumed; a formal Yugoslav note denounced the Western proposal as serving only "chauvinist hatred." Next day Yugoslav Foreign Minister Stanoje Simitch announced more calmly that, as far as he was concerned, the Italians could have Trieste-but only in exchange for Italian Gorizia. It was not much of an offer...
Rachmaninoff put the score aside, and for three years couldn't write a note. In despair he went to Dr. A. Dahl, who day after day, while Rachmaninoff slept in an armchair, repeated hypnotically, "You will begin to write." The cure finally took...