Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...January sinkings during the period of tumultuous North Atlantic storms were no index of what the rate may be during the hunting days of spring. On the extent of Allied, power to stop that drive, First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander made a sadly illuminating remark: "We want the equipment to do the job properly...
...Institute's 61 paintings covering the 28 years of Georgia O'Keeffe's painting life, are a superb catalogue. They include the abstractions, the giant flowers, trees, shells, bones, skulls and landscapes which once caused the New York Sun's Critic Henry McBride to remark that only Georgia O'Keeffe could "so hush up a bunch of lady art connoisseurs and make them go whispering on tiptoes about a gallery." O'Keeffe's huge flowers include jack-in-the-pulpits, hollyhocks, larkspur, the 3-by-2½-ft. Black Iris, which the Institute...
Stone's nomination was prompted by a chance remark of his father's, who had been asked to name a possible candidate. Stone made no election speeches, although his father read one which he had previously written. Nevertheless, he was elected with a total of 15,000 votes...
Casually, in passing, Skipper Bruton remarked that he had put two torpedoes into a Japanese carrier. Casually the Navy passed the remark. Those two torpedoes, which at the least forced a repair period of nearly two months, had made a great difference at a time when the balance of available carrier power leaned heavily in Japan's favor...
Stokes published the Senator's remark, as well as pictures of Wheeler being hailed by one Frank F. Ferenz, later convicted as a Nazi agent...