Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canceled Carrier. Some of what he has to say bears on the great debate in the National Military Establishment-a debate, incidentally, which he deplored as a "sorry spectacle . . . undignified, immature, disruptive and damaging to morale and to the country's safety." An all-out war in the near future, he believes, is not likely. If it comes it will be chiefly fought with the last war's weapons, "and we would win it. The whole world knows that. If it comes it will be by miscalculation, not by design...
...North Pole. As late as 1929, long after Congress, the National Geographic Society and the encyclopedias had taken Peary's word for it, British Polar Scholar J. Gordon Hayes wrote a quarrelsome book to disprove that Peary had reached the Pole. Last week another critic had his say...
...Where the Pole should be," he announced, "there is only a nightmare jigsaw puzzle of ice floes ... I won't say it's impossible that Peary reached the actual Pole, but it's extremely improbable...
...Hollywood, and getting what enjoyment they could from the desert scenery. On their way through Death Valley they spotted an occasional prospector trudging along beside his burro. "Nobody said anything at first," recalls dark-eyed Johnny Lange, "but then it occurred to us, like spontaneous combustion, you might say, that here was an idea for a song." They forgot the scenery, worked out words & music before they hit Hollywood. Glickman, who owns a small recording company, made a master record of it but did not press any copies. The boys all forgot about...
...including a bronze bull, his own novels bound in white vellum, some colored quill-pens, a "vast tortoiseshell crucifix" and stacks of "those large blue rectangular postcards" on which he wrote both his novels and correspondence ("Tomorrow I go to Hayti," crooned one such card to Sir Osbert. "They say the President is a Perfect Dear...