Word: seene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles is so big that nobody knows all about it-not even Mayor Bowron and his master planners-and many people had to be seen to fit all the parts of the story together. Furthermore, Los Angeles is still changing so rapidly that a month's passage can make facts & figures incorrect. This burgeoning growth was demonstrated by our experiences with the seven photographers who worked for eight weeks taking the color shots for the picture supplement accompanying the story. Having chosen a location for a specific shot or a panoramic view, they were likely to find, on returning...
Boudreau says flatly that Ike is one of the two best rookies he has seen come up to the Indians since he became manager in 1942. The other is swarthy Mike Garcia, a husky 200-lb. pitcher of Mexican parentage, who went sleepless all night with stage fright before pitching and winning his first major-league game, in April. Since then, Mike has won 6, lost...
...Government would put up the money. After some squabbling, RFC obliged. Last week, Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, whose Banking & Currency Sub-committee was digging into RFC's affairs, popped an interesting question: Did people want to live in steel houses? "I have only seen one of them," said Fulbright, "but it sort of reminds you of a bathtub...
...morning of the 27th before the Rodney and King George V opened up. Lamed and surrounded, the Bismarck was hit again & again. Destroyers and cruisers banged away; torpedoes hit her; her guns went silent. By 10 o'clock she was aflame and crewmen could be seen going over the side, but her flag still flew; she would not sink and would not surrender. Then, at 10:36, from only 2,500 yards, the cruiser Dorsetshire hit her with a last torpedo. Her colors still flying, the mighty Bismarck rolled over and went down, a few hours less than...
...would have been 'adequate,' as the critical praise word then was. There would have been nothing to complain of if it had been left at three. The fourth made the intolerable touch of poetry. With the fourth, the fun began." Few others but Frost would have seen and described the quality of true poetry as "intolerable" and "fun" at the same time...