Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This letter is prompted by a paragraph in TIME [Aug. 6]: "Ken Murayama, a Japanese newsman, recently captured in the Philippines, wrote that Japan was ripe for surrender...
Under President Truman's signature, as required by the law, a routine quarterly report on Lend-Lease was sent to Congress last week. Newsmen pounced on one pregnant paragraph. It said, in part: "If a debt approaching the magnitude of $42 billion were to be added to the enormous financial obligations that foreign governments have incurred for war purposes . . . it would have a disastrous effect upon our trade with the United Nations and hence upon production and employment at home...
CAPSULIZED COST OF LIVING PARAGRAPH...
Duty Before Pleasure. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News, sharing its cameraman's pique, brushed off the wedding in a single sniffy paragraph. The good grey New York Times gave more space to the squabbling than to the wedding. Only the Herald Tribune, among all nine Manhattan papers, put duty before pleasure, and ran a fetching picture of the wedding- taken before the photographers walked...
...Russian political propaganda and agitation, Charles Darwin is the most quoted of English scientists, because his Origin of Species is considered a refutation of the supernatural. Toward the end of Komarov's speech, he reviewed British science in two paragraphs, most of which was devoted to the great work done by Darwin. American science was covered in one paragraph, which mentioned Benjamin Franklin...