Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only those local residents "with exceptionally good eyesight" will be able to take note of the one percent eclipse appearing to Fred L. Whipple, associate professor of Astronomy...
Farmers who keep pigs must detect a familiar note in many of the objections to the food saving plan [TIME, Oct. 20]. Hogs always raise hell when you push them away from the trough...
Hankering for Meaning. The Stoic closes on the same note of spiritual hankering which pervaded The Bulwark (TIME, March 25, 1946). After Cowperwood's death his mistress travels to India, seeks a religious meaning in life by studying Yoga. But she cannot reconcile spiritual claims with the poverty she sees around her, and is condemned to the old Dreiserian materialist world. In notes for a final chapter, which he did not live to write, Dreiser indicates that the mistress, with the money left her by Cowperwood, realizes his dream of subsidizing a hospital. Seldom has Dreiser allowed himself such...
...farewell note has yet been discovered, and Armstrong's family was at a loss to supply any immediate motive for the suicide last night. 'All I can think of is Winant's death,'murmured Slack. "This is just as inexplicable...
...dink tradition," an editor's note comments, "was being imposed by force on similarly-protesting Freshmen long before Mr. --- was born, and the Princeton spirit seems to have survived the strain...