Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smugly sycophantic Attorney General, Mr. Biddle, who is always available, it seems, with any legal interpretation desired by his masters, contributed his bit to this classically European situation by his condescending remark that Mr. Avery "put up quite a fight." Pleading the "war effort" is scarcely any excuse for this highhanded and dictatorial confiscation of a business property and this cynical violence upon the person of a respectable, though anti-New Deal, gentleman whose difficulties with Government bureaus do not necessarily brand him a common crook...
...Pittsburgh only one physicist outspokenly opposed Ehrenhaft. Dr. Jacob E. Goldman, 23-year-old Westinghouse magnetism researcher, rose to remark that he had repeated Ehrenhaft's experiments, found only bubbles, no magnetic current. His results suited another youngster, 27-year-old James T. Kendall of England's Metropolitan-Vickers laboratory. Dr. Kendall declared in Nature that Ehrenhaft's claims "may turn out to be no more valid than his previous claims of the existence of charges smaller than the electron...
...English have never forgiven him for the remark (which he rather half-heartedly denied having made) that "Democracy is finished in England...
...middle-road EDES, linked now in a committee of liberation that might become a government any day, accept Papandreou as a genuine member of the resistance movement? Or would they say that he had knuckled under to the King to get himself the premiership? Papandreou had dropped a puzzling remark: "Greek politics have changed. We are no longer royalists or republicans. Just nationalists or extreme left-wingers." The committeemen of the mountains were in touch with Tito of Yugoslavia, a man with a strikingly similar problem, and they gave evidence of being attuned to suggestions from Moscow...
After a long struggle, I have gotten most of our New England journals to realize that the classic remark, "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it" (TIME, March 20) was not Mark Twain's. . . . Charles Dudley Warner, Associate Editor of the Hartford Courant, was the man. Mark Twain did say (or write), "If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes...