Word: runge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number, full of newspapers. The resulting tone, says Father Finn, "sounded like everybody was playing a fine-toothed comb. I had to ring the curtain down so we could fix things." In Regina, Saskatchewan, Finn found himself without a baton. A gentleman, "a true gentleman," says Finn, "took the rung of his chair and whittled it down so that it would fit between my third and fourth fingers, which is where I hold a baton. Halfway through the concert that baton flew out of my hands and struck a boy chorister across the face, but we continued...
Among the gentlemen present were Chiang Kai-shek's Finance Minister Dr. H. H. ("Daddy") Rung, Canada's Ilsley, Mexico's Suarez, Netherlands' Beyen, Russia's Stepanov, Iran's Ebtehaj. No one knew last week how they would line up; most of the preliminary skirmishing between the British and the Americans in the Battle of the Blueprints has taken place under cover. The first open blow was struck last spring by John Maynard Keynes, First Baron Tilton, with a proposal that in effect would give the British dominance in world currency arrangements. The second...
...Office at Ankara in 1929 as a departmental head, foreign attaches already knew this sick young man with an abscessed lung and deficient hearing as a cold, hard, calculating bargainer. When, 22 months ago, Numan's gradual ascent up the Foreign Office ladder brought him to the top rung as Minister, no one was surprised...
...reporter he ranks at the top with the United Press's Edward W. Beattie, the Chicago Daily News' s William Stoneman, the New York Times's Drew Middleton. On British foreign policy and relations with its Allies, on Russia's moves, Kuh crowds the top rung with the New York Times's James B. Reston...
...with a corps of able assistants, in Frigidaire's Dayton, Ohio laboratory. Compound after compound was examined, tested, cast aside. Finally Chemist Midgley hit on dichlorodifluoromethane (carbon; chlorine; water; and the mineral, fluorspar). It was nonpoisonous, odorless, would not support flame. For the second spectacular time, Midgley had rung the laboratory bell...