Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Press Club. Last week Dulles, still glowing from the President's press-conference tribute, went to a sellout luncheon at the National Press Club to face his critics. By the time he had finished his formal speech and a question-and-answer session, he had left on the record one of his clearest appraisals of his own job and U.S. cold war policy...
...ceaselessly querulous and bellicose." The most conspicuous exception to Mencken's Law is the Christian Science Monitor (circ. 158,729). which never whines, cusses or blusters, but sets out daily, as enjoined by Christian Science Founder Mary Baker Eddy, to ''spread confidence instead of fear, record the good men do instead of magnifying and exploiting the regrettable evil...
...Breaking the 880-yd. and 800-meter freestyle swimming records (TIME, Jan. 20) was so easy for Australia's Latvian Immigrant Jon Konrads, 15, that the tireless teen-ager barely paused for breath before splashing back into North Sydney's Olympic pool and churning past four more marks. He finished the 440-yd. grind in 4:25.9, which was a 400-meter record as well. He sprinted 220 yds. in 2:04.8, setting a new 200-meter mark in the process...
...tape-Villanova's Irish Olympian Ron Delany stuck to the same old habit of winning mile races. Ron opened the 1958 track season at the Massachusetts K. of C. Games by coming home six yards in front of Chicago's Phil Coleman in a Games record...
...eight fragments failed to show up. Next day three more were gone. On Jan. 9 a single fragment spread its little ionosphere for Dr. Kraus to record. It appeared again on Jan. 10, but on Jan. 11 Dr. Kraus searched the sky in vain...