Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When their long, painstaking job was done, the four of them filed a 48,000-word report to O'Neil in New York, who thereupon sat down to write his story. When he had finished it, Researcher Anne Lopatin took over the job of verifying a multitude of facts such as the statement that "Los Angeles lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester"-a statistic which our Boston Bureau proved to its personal astonishment and chagrin...
Last week, after two years of hearings and deliberation, the commission planted a bombshell in the laps of its Labor patrons. To the shocked surprise of left-wing politicians and press, its 3&2-page report was a sweeping vindication of the private ownership of Britain's newspapers...
...neighbors soon stopped worrying about young Albert Schweitzer, who began to grow up as straight and strong as an Alsatian pine. But his mother still had cause to weep-over his report cards. The first-rate education to which he was entitled as a parson's son, and the grandson of a minister and a schoolmaster, seemed at first to be a dubious investment. At home, Albert's brothers & sisters called him "the dreamer." At school, reading and writing came hard to him, and his nervous giggle earned him the nickname of Isaac (in Hebrew, "He laughs...
...Lutherans gave the report a restrained welcome. Last week Eric Ruden, general secretary of Sweden's Baptist Union (40,000 members), said: "The most important question . . . abolition of the state church, has not been touched. This is a step forward . . . but we want religious freedom as in the United States...
...preliminary report on a scientific survey indicated that one of the factors in lung cancer...