Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shock of black fuzz; he was dressed in a blue tweed jacket and blue woolen skirt with red belt, black oxfords and black, knee-length stockings. He was not prepared for the reporters and photographers who found him aboard the liner Mauretania, on a trip that is taking him around the world. The newsmen persuaded him to take off his jacket and western shirt, and pose for an hour with the hardwood spear, stone ax and Bible that he had brought with...
Potent Unitarian Bradford, however, was in no mood for such tiptoe tactics. "We must have a central Christian pur pose,", he warned. ";A faith which believes in everything believes in nothing. If Unitarianism is.to be merely a secular debating society, let's take the word 'faith' out of it. I cannot worship the mind...
Thus in Rome last week, the Holy Year of 1950 was officially proclaimed. The tradition is 650 years old. Originally planned to take place every 100 years, the intervals were shortened first to 50, finally to 25 years-though popes may declare a special Holy Year at any time, as Pius XI did in 1933 to commemorate the 1900th anniversary of the Crucifixion...
...Metropolitan had bought the picture (for a reputed $200,000) from Knoedler's, a 57th Street gallery which had bought it "deliverable in Manhattan" from "someone" abroad. The diplomatic exchanges would take some time. Meanwhile Knoedler's wasn't saying who the "someone" was, and the museum held on to its saint...
...Viking's inner works are much like the V-2's: it burns alcohol and "lox" (liquid oxygen) in a single combustion chamber. Chief improvement is in the control mechanism. When a big rocket first takes off, the air is not moving past its fins fast enough to provide steering control. The Germans got around this difficulty by putting small, movable graphite vanes in the blast of hot gas from the combustion chamber. By deflecting the gas stream slightly when the rocket wobbled, the vanes kept it upright until it was moving fast enough for the outside fins...