Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the recent publication of a 390-page report on religious freedom, written by a six-man "Dissenter Law Committee" after five years of hearings and deliberations, Sweden has now made a move in the direction of greater religious freedom. The committee's recommendations, due for careful study before introduction into Parliament next spring, contain six major points...
Child of Three. Dunninger accepts the applause and bafflement of his audiences with the conscious modesty of a great man. He says: "A child of three can do what I do-with 30 years' practice." Dunninger, 53, has been on the boards for 35 years. He has mystified six U.S. Presidents the Duke of Windsor, Steinmetz, Thomas Edison, and the Pope (who, Dunninger reports, gave him a few bad moments by thinking in Latin...
Once before, the board had tried to suspend Standard's operations (TIME, Aug. 16), but the Court of Appeals threw out the ruling. CAB, said the court, would have to conduct hearings first. After six months of intermittent hearings, CAB was still of the same mind: Standard was too regular. It had told customers that it operated a daily flight from San Francisco to Chicago; it had conducted flights from Los Angeles to New York "on an average of all but two days of each week...
Died. George Franklin Slosson, 95, for half a century after the Civil War one of the world's top billiard players who won, with his 50? cue, six international titles between 1877 and 1908; in Boston...
...laugh from Venezuelan vertebrates in the neighborhood, Beebe and company put up a sign reading "LABORATORIO: MANICOMO," i.e., bughouse. Some of the natives watched with great interest as Beebe experimented with such insects as the Hercules beetles, six inches long, which outweigh some of the smallest mammals and fight with their horns like embittered rhinoceroses. Though ocelots hunted by night in the rooms of the Rancho Grande, and army ants on the march once had to be diverted from the laboratory by 20 gallons of flaming gasoline, Beebe firmly maintains that the jungle was as safe as a church. During...