Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, too, had to go-along with Fortinbras. Sometimes Olivier and his co-editor, Alan Dent, have gone out of their way to save a small jewel (The bird of dawning singeth all night long). But now & then, apparently for the sake of pace, they needlessly throw something overboard...
...West claimed a sizable victory when the major apparently heaved Marxian determinism overboard. "Every historical event," the powers agreed, "is a result of the interaction and interdependence of ... economic factors, political factors, cultural and social factors." Just how complete the victory would be, Berlin school children would learn next fall when their history books arrive. Each power will write texts for its own sector, then get the approval of the other powers...
...that his ballad has had a hearing, Gerschefski is carrying another TIME clipping around in his pocket. It is a story called Man Overboard (TIME, March 1) and is concerned with the ship's carpenter who fell off the Grace Liner Santa Clara one bright day in the Caribbean and was miraculously recovered by his ship, which had discovered his absence and put about for him. Gerschefski doesn't know whether it will make a ballad like Half Moon Mountain, but he is strongly inclined...
There was no need to show what the gods looked like, for no one knew, but every carving had to be at least a reminder of the unknown. In reaching for the supernatural, the Negro tribesmen lightened their load by tossing naturalism overboard. Their sculptures were subject to just one academic discipline: What can you do with a knife and a block of wood...
Blind Devotion. In London, the Admiralty studied a request for a naval commission from a man who wrote: "My father was a seaman who fell overboard and drowned, and I would like to follow in his footsteps...