Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform Sigler had grabbed a telephone and was talking to Vandenberg, getting the final word to jump. Other coalition bosses looked for California's Bill Knowland, who in all conscience should also be given the chance to say aye or nay. But Knowland could not be found. Then the chair announced the count, which formally closed the second ballot. It was too late to make any changes...
...wife, as he was about to depart for Pennsylvania: "My dear wife, remember thou wast the love of my youth, and much the joy of my life; the most beloved, as well as the most worthy of all my earthly comforts . . . God knows, and thou knowest it, I can say it was a match of Providence's making...
Distasteful Duty. "By whom will the public services be manned? By mediocrity and by hacks? Or by our very ablest citizens? I say it must be the latter . . . We all remember . . . that in the early years of the republic, full-time public service, though at least as distasteful as today, was not thought beneath the talents or the dignity of the ablest and most successful men. By any measure, Mr. Washington and Mr. Jefferson were not the least able citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia...
...Boston last week, Ginn & Co., largest publisher of schoolbooks in the U.S., rushed a revision of its bestselling World Geography by Geologist John Hodgdon Bradley. Texas, which would use 10,000 copies of the book, had objected to some of the nice things Bradley (an exmarine) had to say about Russia, when he wrote the book in 1945. The new World Geography for Texas, with the author's consent, would call Russia the "biggest" instead of the "greatest" nation in Europe, reduce the Soviet government's achievements from "mighty" to "considerable," downgrade Russia's claim to warm...
...study. Readers are not likely to rank it (as his eager-beaver publishers do) with De Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) and Lord Bryce's American Commonwealth (1888). But they will find that it stands head & shoulders above the kind of superficial once-over exemplified by, say, John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. (TIME, June...