Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professional rousers are not always helpful. A gloomy Oxford "scout" (college servant) used to wake his young gentlemen with the invariable remark: "Seven-thirty, sir, and another 'orrible morning...
RUBBISH. IN 22 YEARS' ASSOCIATION WITH HUBBLE I HAVE NEVER HEARD HIM USE PROFANITY. THE ATTRIBUTED REMARK IS COMPLETELY OUT OF CHARACTER...
...TIME's source was a responsible Pasadena newsman. Astronomer Hubble himself does not remember whether he made the statement or not, "rather doubts" that he did because he is not a swearing man. "I may not have made the remark on this particular occasion," he adds, "but I assure you that I do not button my collar on the back of my neck...
...total to date: 137. At Lake Success, the President's remark moved Russia's Andrei Gromyko to a glint of dangerously Western humor. Said he: "It seems [Truman] is well ahead...
Colonel Fremantle's remark, "I wouldn't have missed this for anything," while inappropriate, was not tactless; for the observer was in ignorance of the tactical situation at the time, and erroneously supposed that he had arrived just in time to witness an attack. He was unaware, when he spoke to Longstreet, that he was viewing Pickett's retreat. To quote Fremantle: "When I got close up to General Longstreet, I saw one of his regiments advancing through the woods in good order; so, thinking I was just in time to see the attack, I remarked...