Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Potter, celebrating his birthday, kicked in the first score for Harvard on a slant from twenty yards out which barely eluded the leaping Yale goalie, Symington. After Potter's score in 13:40 of the first period, the Crimson missed several scoring chances while fullbacks Mike Scully and Rick Drake turned back an occasional Yale attack...
Lewis Kokeny, mild-mannered deputy president of the Hungarian branch of the movement, made a keynote speech with a curious iron-curtain slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an oldfashioned, romantic idea . . . Our immediate neighbors are what count." Western Esperantists, he admitted, still believe that their language should remain "politically neutral." On this point Kokeny was firm. "Here we are convinced that Esperanto must cooperate with progress and that neutrality is not possible...
Trim, tidy little Maria Ripinskaya is not quite so certain of herself. She hopes to be a schoolteacher and by 1953 "visualize myself starting literature lessons. The following spring my pupils pass their examinations." But blond, slant-eyed Vladimir Barkov has no doubts whatever concerning the year 1963. By then, believes Vladimir, triumphant Soviet science will have perfected atomic control and powered a voyage to the moon. Out of thousands of applicants, three young men will be chosen to man the first Mars-bound ship. Vladimir will be one. "Before starting," he writes, "I peruse my diaries...
Reading about the Cincinnati Enquirer-Westbrook Pegler feud [TIME, March 1], I noticed you termed the Enquirer "Democratic." After several years of reading the Enquirer, I've either gotten the wrong slant on things, or else TIME is wrong. About the only thing in the Enquirer that approaches being democratic is the comic section...
Facing Stalin in the long, vaulted, white, brown and yellow Andreevsky Hall, 1,300 deputies sat at school-bench desks. Round-eyed, shaven-pated Russians in business suits sat beside slant-eyed Uzbeks and Tadjiks in embroidered tyubeteiki (skull caps). They were handed the biggest budget in Soviet history: 387.9 billion rubles ($74 billion). The military would get 17%, compared with 18% of a 371 billion ruble budget...