Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your Dec. 29 issue you mention the 16 European nations participating in the Marshall Plan . . . and you begin your enumeration with "Australia." . . . The actual participant in question is 971 years old and was already quite civilized when Australia was not even a convict settlement. . . . The country, sir, is the romantic little Republic of Austria. . . . MICHAEL HAMMER Berkeley, Calif...
...lately spotting oddities in TIME. This time it may have been touched off by the picture the editors ran in the Sept. 22 issue of England's Prime Minister Clement Attlee wearing his hat backwards, which drew a heavy response, much of it accompanied by the inevitable question: "Is he coming or going?" At any rate, when Czechoslovakia's Jan Masaryk turned up in the Oct. 6 issue wearing his spectacles upside down, more than 100 of you said you noticed it. Fifteen of you, presumably equipped with magnifying glasses, even noticed that there were 56 stars...
Sometimes the juxtaposition of advertising and editorial material causes you to ask: "Did you plan it that way?" The question was raised recently by a number of readers when a picture of the 30th Anniversary Parade in Moscow (showing huge blown-up portraits of Russian leaders being carried above the marchers' heads) appeared opposite a full-page ad built around a picture of the big gasbag figures in Macy's famous Thanksgiving Day parade. We didn't, of course, plan it that...
Oxford debaters met Harvard Sunday at Sanders Theatre, and the Britishers gained an impressive 2 to 1 decision on the question of nationalization of basic industries...
...question Do you believe in life after death?, doubt was more widespread. The U.S., with 68% sure of a hereafter and 19% undecided, ranked fifth...