Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cock-simple way of simplifying spelling was proposed last week in the London Times. Arising out of a discussion of Basic English (TIME, Aug. 16; Sept. 20), a letter-to-the-editor purported to quote the great Elizabethan, pipe-smoking Sir Walter Raleigh, who spelled his name three different ways (Ralegh, Rauleygh, Rauley) but never Raleigh. "Sir Walter's" simple suggestion: spell any way you like...
Such evidence has been piling up in recent weeks. Last week rumors and reports poured in from the neutral countries near Germany, from the Reich itself, from occupied territory. The message they seemed to spell out: crisis is bringing on important changes in the German High Command and civil government. Expert observers in London studied the evidence with interest and caution, offered an interested and cautious verdict: "Could...
...Tohokai's chief, Nakano forged tight bonds with the Army, outshouted all other jingoists in demands for aggression, became known as "Father of Japan's Fascism." Vain and headstrong, he refused offers of high Government posts (except for a spell as a vice minister); his goal was to rule the Government through his party, through threats, through the clamor of the rabble. Though Cabinets feared and hated him, he never dominated any of them. But as Japan's best-known fascist, he helped to mold the public mind, supplied the Army with totalitarian catchwords, had much...
Hour of Tragedy. When Benito Mussolini, the proletarian, marched on Rome in 1922, Carlo Sforza, the aristocrat, 17th count of a venerable line, was Italian Ambassador in Paris. He had reached that post after diplomatic service from London to China and a spell as Foreign Minister. With the Blackshirt government he would have no truck. He resigned as Ambassador, returned to Rome, denounced Fascismo and its dangerous "adventurers" from his seat in the Senate. The Duce said that he could have twelve bullets put into Count Sforza. The Count replied that political murder was inadvisable. But the time came, during...
Teddy Roosevelt had four sons. They all went to Harvard. They all inherited some of their father's fire. They all fought in World War I. Quentin was killed in action flying in France. Kermit, after a wandering spell with the British Army, came back to the U.S. Army, died on duty last spring in Alaska. Teddy Jr. deserted the publishing business in 1941, rejoined the Army, became a brigadier general, fought in Tunisia and distinguished himself for his memory of soldiers' names, his strut and his coolness under fire. The other son was Archibald...