Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people all over Europe do not know that we are the kindest, most generous, and most sympathetic people on the fact of the earth, no amount of silly broadcasting will enable them to realize these facts." Thus, in the House last week, cried rang-nosed Representative John Jennings, up from the hills of eastern Tennessee. The debate was over the State Department's budget, from which an appropriations subcommittee had shorn $31 million requested for the Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs...
Last year the gong rang in some impressive film achievements. Two British films (Henry V and Brief Encounter) were voted among the year's best movies by Manhattan critics. Last week nine other Rank pictures (Odd Man Out, Stairway to Heaven, etc.) were holding down Manhattan cinemansions. And next week Rank's Great Expectations is scheduled to open in Manhattan's massive Radio City Music Hall-the movie world's equivalent of a White House reception for an immigrant...
...first game was mild. Jim Dooley, Dartmouth right-hander, extended the Varsity's batting drought with a three-hit performance while his teammates rang up single tallies off Brendon Reilly in the first, third, and fourth frames. Relief pitcher Ira Godin was touched for the visitors' final two runs in the sixth...
...last week with newsmen and headed out over the Pacific near Los Angeles. He flew west until he was opposite the steep mountains beyond Santa Monica, which have reached for many an airplane through California fog. Turning inland, Hughes flew the plane directly toward the highest peak. The bell rang and the light flashed as soon as the radar "cat's whiskers" brushed the rising ground...
...learned chat with Harvard's Society of Fellows, invites friends to his apartment for coffee and conversation. Most of them agree at least one-third with Gertrude Stein, who once wrote: "Only three times in my life have I met a genius and each time a bell rang within me. . . . The three geniuses [are] Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and Alfred Whitehead...