Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these industrious ministers have no power to make policy; their committees can only draft and recommend; and the Cabinet seldom meets. Yes or no must be said. It must be said, nominally at any rate, by Mr. Churchill, who has his friends by him. There is the Lord Privy Seal [Beaverbrook]. There is the Minister of Information [Brendan Bracken], a faithful and able lieutenant. But they are not policymakers...
...outfit would have been proud of the record. These victories stamped the final seal of combat excellence on one of the most controversial outfits in the Army, the all-Negro 99th Fighter Squadron (TIME, Sept...
Died. Charles Haskins Townsend, 84, famed zoologist and arctichthyologist, for 35 years director of the New York Aquarium; in Miami, Fla. He was credited with having saved three varieties of rare "critters" (his invariable term) from extinction: the giant Galapagos tortoise, the Alaskan reindeer, the fur seal...
They man the pleasure cruisers which have been turned over to the Coast Guard Auxiliary, fill out depleted crews of regular Coast Guard cutters, squeegee paint, scrub decks, inspect buoys, board incoming merchantmen and seal their radios, run signal lights, patrol docks and beaches. In their idle time between their twelve-hour-a-week duty and their regular civilian jobs, the hottest zealots study seamanship, gunnery and navigation...
...Stuart's Taps for Private Tussie ($2.75), in which a story of a Kentucky mountain child's uncanny poetic observation was curdled by a burlesque-show farce of life among his elders. The brilliant portraits of anti-Soviet Author Mark Aldanov's Russian novel, The Fifth Seal ($3), were blurred in the diffuse and incoherent story...