Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no historical justification whatever for the remark, nor is there any need to flout the convictions of some 40,000,000 Anglicans...
...like sheep but like tiger-hunting dogs, accused sheep of waiting when attacked to be eaten up one by one, praised the dogs for sticking together in a pack and making a "combined rush" at their attacker. The P.M. did not use such picturesque imagery, but he did remark across the ropes to neutrals like Norway and Sweden that they had better adopt a policy that "corresponds to realities," instead of acting as if "it was a matter of indifference to those small neutral States whether the war ended in victory for Germany or for the Allies...
...answer to Professor Mortimer J. Adler's characterization of the Chicago survey courses as purveyors of "superficial indoctrination," the statement said, "This remark probably referred more to the Humanities and Social Sciences, rather than to the Natural Sciences course, which is a generally admitted success...
Well-taken was his remark. In its attempt to dissolve $253,000,000 Alcoa as a monopoly in restraint of trade, the Government filed suit April 23, 1937, kicked off on June 1, 1938. Year later it rested its case, and the defense took the ball. It still has it. In that time the courthouse, which was brand-new when the case was filed, has aged with the processes of jurisprudence; Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland have disappeared; World War II began; two of the Government attorneys took wives; another became a father; two of the original 63 Alcoa defendants...
...Washington Lee Kinsolving, a Tidewater aristocrat who once cut short a long sermon with, "Parson, isn't it grog time?", was bound that his only son should enter the church. Last week a great-grandson of old George Kinsolving did something as hearty as his ancestor's remark. He announced that he was leaving his big, rich, famed Boston parish for a small church in the little town of Princeton...