Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nonplussed, I was bewildered . . . to see well-informed and ordinarily accurate TIME report in its May 2 issue that Stan Jones, writer of Ghost Riders,* is a "leathery-necked forest ranger" in Death Valley National Monument...
Back of these stars Ben Jones & Co. have a flashy crop of two-year-olds, neatly named as usual by Mrs. Warren Wright. One is Shine Boy, a bay colt whose Calumet Farm report card carries these impressive comments: "Extremely great hay-eater . . . has everything a good horse needs." Another is a fiery chestnut named Urgent: "top Blenheim II colt." Nevertheless, Ben Jones suspects that when Derby Day, 1950, rolls around, a brown son of Bull Lea may be the colt to beat. His name: All Blue...
Busy Editor Gardner Cowles of Look (circ. 2,912,689) thought that U.S. readers were getting "busier & busier" all the time. What they needed in the way of a weekly news report, he decided, was something brief and handy to snatch up in their spare moments "on the bus or in the beauty parlor." Last week "Mike" Cowles gave them a new, 64-page magazine of "news, pictures [19 pages] and predictions" no bigger than a man's hand. Name: Quick. Price...
...course Stricker referred to, one text was the report of President. Truman's Council of Economic Advisors, and to show the union's point of view, the instructor passed out--on request--two union pamphlets...
...reported by the Michigan C.I.O. News, Stricker told the subcommittee: "In this particular class that I attended, all the instructor did was to put percentages on the blackboard. I am sure that members of the class don't known arithmetic. Well, to discuss the Economic Report of President Truman with people who don't know how to count, they ought to teach them about the Constitution...