Word: probed
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Socrates is the name of the protagonist here, and Athens (California) is his home town; but these are the only classical touches in an otherwise humdrum production. This probe into the lusty bustle of Washington confusion is constructed along lines so directly opposite to plays dealing with the other Athens that all references to Greece and Grecian society appear dragged in by quotation marks and seem completely out of context. Revolving around a yearling Congressman who identifies himself with his namesake, the play attempts to inject an Old World perspective into the hurly-burly of politics; but long before...
...Committee will turn to education. Thomas said, after another phase of the Hollywood probe and "three or four other matters are cleared...
...Probe Food Preparation...
...vowed that he would exile himself from the U.S. if his mammoth Hercules flying boat failed to fly. The world's biggest plane, which had cost the Government $18 million (and Hughes $7 million of his own), was one of the targets of the committee's probe (TIME, Aug. 11) into the affairs of the man-of-many-businesses. But Hughes had no intention of exiling himself. Early last August, a crew of 100 men began working round-the-clock shifts, seven days a week, to complete the plywood plane...
Wingham revealed that a probe had unearthed the fact that black and orange were rewarding their star fullback, Tcheep Plated Silver, and their ace passing combination of Troilus and Cressida, with used copies of the Yale Daily News...