Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catching two broadbill in one day, extraordinary though it is, is not unprecedented. Two other big-game anglers have landed two in one day: Briton W. E. S. Tuker off Tocopilla, Chile and Calif ornian J. W. Jump off Catalina Island. What made last week's catch an unparalleled achievement was the fact that Angler Lerner had done it for the second time-one day in 1936, in the same waters, he caught a 535-pounder and a 601-pounder (a North American record...
...first no reason was given for the ban. Questioned by the daily press, which saw something dangerously approaching censorship, the wholesalers attributed the ban to their fear of libel suits. In the 15 years it has been circulated in Great Britain TIME has never been sued for libel. Though startled by the ban in a country which boasts of its free press, TIME planned no action, left the business of Britain's press censorship up to Britain's press itself...
...listeners. If even a hundred of them corked off, without Mr. Klein in the living room to wake them up, it could make a mightier stir than the Orson Welles-invoked invasion from Mars. Why, some of the audience might even sleep through the commercial ! No sir! Thanks awfully, though...
William Lamb was Caroline's predestined prey. They were married, though not before Caroline, "seized by an unaccountable fit of rage with the officiating bishop, tore her gown and was carried fainting from the room." For three years all went well. Once Caroline was brought in "concealed under a silver dish cover, from which she emerged on the dinner table stark naked. ..." In the mornings William and she read "Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible"; then "Hume with Shakespeare till the dressing bell...
...warm spring day in 1820 a tall, towheaded, 14-year-old farm boy named Joseph Smith stumbled into his parents' log cabin at Palmyra, N. Y., looking as though he had seen a ghost. He had just talked with God in an oak grove. "And it came to pass," reported ragged Joe, "that the Son spake unto me, saying, 'verily, verily, I say unto you, my servant Joseph, that a new church will be established in these latter days and you will be my prophet...