Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Imported antiSemitism! cried Berlin's U.S.-licensed Tagesspiegel. It was protesting against the expensively produced British movie Oliver Twist, J. Ar thur Rank's cinematic hot potato which the protests of Jewish groups had kept from U.S. screens (TIME, Oct. 4). A short time later, Berliners themselves protested in more destructive fashion at the movie's faithful portrait of Charles Dickens' "Jew Fagin," fence and brutal master of a gang of young thieves...
...target by any influences it sent out (heat, light, magnetism) which the enemy could not screen off or simulate. The missile could not send back the observations of its eye by television, like the television bombs of World War II, for human brains to analyze. Since the very short waves used by television do not follow the curve of the earth, this method would be effective for only a few hundred miles...
Last week, Amsterdam's councilmen made short work of lopping off the annuity. But to Willem Mengelberg, a senile remnant of musical greatness, it made small difference. Because of Dutch currency restrictions, he had received only about a quarter of his stipend anyway; most of his money came from Swiss investments...
Following a short wedding trip, the couple will reside in West End. --(From the Mamaroneck Daily Times...
...combined point total of both teams, 147, was but one short of the Palestra record...