Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munich, a reception for sleek Baron Gottfried von Cramm, Germany's best amateur tennist, was suddenly canceled. Reason: Tennist von Cramm had been arrested on suspicion of violating paragraph 175 of the Reich criminal code, which refers to moral delinquencies...
...have just read your article "Black's White". . . in your issue of Jan. 24. There is decided distortion of the truth and misrepresentation of fact in the first paragraph referring to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knox Greene of Greensboro...
...quotation of a lengthy paragraph is expedient to illustrate, completely and without partisanship, so muddled a volume. Mr. Hillyer is denouncing experimental novelists...
Rereading of the quoted paragraph makes manifest that no argument is held to and that nothing is established. Sound supplants sense; familiar cadences camouflage banality and intellectual inconsistency...
TIME'S timely description of the Sky Tiger by Bell out of Buffalo goes haywire in its second paragraph (TiME, Nov. 15, Transport). The printer's the fall guy (we hope) when he says "two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns." Calibre is the diameter of the bore between the lands. A ".50 calibre gun" is a ½ in. gun. Incidentally the service says "calibre...