Word: personation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine terrorists whom Ben Hecht admires lack the atomic bomb. However, the scientifically inclined among them have been working on a person-to-person substitute which may have a great and grisly future. Last week they sent exploding cream-colored envelopes to Ernie Bevin, Anthony Eden and other prominent Britons. Nobody was hurt-largely because of the British Government's long experience with unfriendly mail. But the packet was ingenious. Within an inner envelope, marked "Private and Confidential," were 1) a cardboard folder containing enough powdered gelignite to kill the opener, 2) a pencil-sized battery...
...anybody ever tell you how most instructive your Letters Dept. really is? . . . Errors that slip by your editors are not noticed by the ordinary person; it takes experts, which goes to show that top people in every field are reading TIME and are cooperating in writing to you-resulting in welcome information for other readers...
...Yard called in entomology experts of the British Museum. Who might have engineered this stunning crime? The answer was as obvious as cherchez la femme: only a person with a consuming love of lepidoptera. Last week the mystery was cleared up. In a West Ham court, Colin William Wyatt, a handsome, 38-year-old, onetime Cambridge ski champion, confessed all. Why had he done it? While he was in Australia (with the Air Force), his marriage had gone on the rocks. To forget, he had plunged into a hobby he had pursued since...
...dusk they have painted the surf smashing against the rocks and the jumble of houses, tumbledown fishing shacks, crooked wharves, dories, fish barrels and lobster pots that line the coast. Many go away at summer's end in agreement with Halifax Artist William E. Degarthe, who says: "A person who doesn't feel his blood tingle when he sees Peggy's has no heart...
...accompany extension of the Program to the entire body of Freshmen and Sophomores rob the courses of the top quality they have boasted this year! Despite the fact that the number of sections might increase and the intimate scale thus hold fast, the present practice of professors meeting in person with section groups would necessarily come...