Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week the knowledge came in handy. When the first Chinese Communist shells exploded in Peiping, Associated Press Correspondent Moosa tried to tell the world. The Nationalist censor said no. So Old China Hand Moosa banged out a furious message to the A.P. explaining why he couldn't report that Peiping was under bombardment. The censor passed it-and Moosa had his beat. Excerpts...
...question was how to stop them. Confessed L.I.U.'s famed Coach Clair Bee: "Why should I pay $100 for a scouting report when I know everything there is to be known about them. [They're] terrific." He sent his men into a zone defense, a desperation move...
...fail, Jessie ordered engraved invitations for their first big party in four years. A few days before it was to be given, C.E. called her from the office and told her she would have to give it alone. He had been asked to go to Germany for ECA and report back on what should be done with German plants. Mrs. Wilson called off the party, packed a suitcase with chipped beef and peanuts, and went with him. (She thriftily considered scratching out the date on the invitations for possible future use. The engraver didn't think it would "look...
...wave of Wall Street's enthusiasm over television, the stock of Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. rode high. In December, it was one of the 20 most active stocks on the Big Board, and held steady at about 7 points, despite the company's report of a $724,000 loss for the six months ending Oct. 31. Last week a New York Stock Exchange clerk looked over a registration statement which Farnsworth had filed with SEC for a new stock issue of 270,000 shares. He noticed something odd. It showed a loss...
Strictly as an account of Dreiser's bitter early years, this is one of the best biographies of an American literary figure since Israfel, Hervey Allen's life of Poe. Its report of Dreiser's last years is perfunctory and its criticism of his work is so noncommittal that the reader has trouble in fathoming Author Elias' own opinion. But Dreiser's youth in the gaslit underworld of Terre Haute, his work in the rowdy newspaper and music publishing houses of the turn of the century, and above all, the gaudy entrances & exits...