Word: realm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theoretically, you could still have the rights to change the government by peaceful means, but planning demands continuity at least in administration. One way out is to create more independent boards, mainly outside the realm of political controversy; but Wootton admits that planning can only work where there is common agreement between parties as to social ends, and favors inter-party conferences to emphasize agreements rather than disputes...
...probably not even get a rise out of the bobby soxers, while the Andrews Sisters' rendition of "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" would have tasted better with less sugar. The sequence featuring the Goodman sextet is a bit of surrealism that seems to have no place in the realm of motion pictures, though it comes out better in an animated cartoon than when dragged into a regular movie as a dream sequence. "Roll Along, Blue Bayon," which stars two cranes cavorting in the heart of Senator Claghorn's country, is probably the dullest thing ever to come...
...swift grey waters of the Rhine last week divided the realm of European Communism. The Kremlin had faced a choice between vanquished Germany and victorious, allied France. With icy calm, it had chosen Germany...
Some years ago Edward Kasner, a whimsical Columbia University mathematician, coined the word "googol" as the name of a very large number: the number i followed by 100 zeros (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). Dr. Kasner made it clear that the googol, though useful in the recondite realm of probability mathematics, would never be needed in mundane affairs...
...Rain. Gayest feather in any Jesuit hat was "Campion's Brag." This document, written for use after his almost certain arrest, circulated beforehand and made him famous. In it he asked for three audiences: with the Privy Council, the Masters of the Universities, and the lawyers of the realm, to prove the truth of his faith...