Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thence by way of the Arkansas and Red Rivers to the Mississippi. Dr. James became botanist, geologist and surgeon . . . They were particularly desirous of visiting what Pike called the highest peak of the mountains, which now bears the name of that distinguished explorer and soldier. Its summit had been reported inaccessible. A detachment of the party, however, conducted by Dr. James, went to the top on the 13th and 14th of July, 1820. From this circumstance it was called James' Peak, and this name is given to it on the map which accompanies the report of the expedition...
...TIME'S staff will also assist the editors of LIFE, who have joined forces with the Nation al Broadcasting Co. to report the convention via television, as well as in the pages of LIFE...
...crisp who's who of 506 Red leaders, prepared by Subcommittee No. 5 of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and published as a supplement to the committee's report on world Communism (Feb. 29). * Who, according to Aristophanes, persuaded the women of Athens to stage a strike against their husbands. * The ill-clad French revolutionaries who wore plebeian long trousers instead of upper-class culottes (knee breeches...
...first report on the state of the nation last week, new Premier Wong Wen-hao said little that the Legislative Yuan did not know already. The Chinese Reds held all but a fraction of Manchuria. They were straining the Nationalist lines in North China. Some industry was already moving southward; more might soon have to go. Dr. Wong likened it to the great exodus of 1937-39, when Chinese factories were moved to the interior ahead of the Japs. But he promised: "Even though we are compelled to shift our center to South China ... we shall come back and drive...
...angry Yuan demanded a listing of the exact measures to be taken. Cried a member from Central China: "Nearly all Manchuria and North China have been lost . . . Yet the ever-weakening strength of government troops and their low morale have not even been discussed in Dr. Wong's report." When the Yuan adjourned for the day, 132 legislators were still clamoring to speak...