Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true, but I don't know"), had other paternal worries when ex-Wife Virginia Lederer sued for increased support of their six-year-old daughter, Christopher.* She asked for $350 instead of $133 a month, plus maintenance of a $71,000 life insurance policy and a $100,000 trust fund, finally settled for $900 cash-after talk of setting up a trust fund was called a "futile gesture," because the onetime "boy wonder" was some $65,000 in the red despite his last year's screen and radio take...
...German film trust, hired the Professor to help produce a spaceship movie called The Girl in the Moon. As a publicity stunt for the movie's premiere, Oberth was to launch a tremendous rocket of his own design at a deserted spot on the Baltic coast. The rocket failed to go off and the humiliated professor retired from public view...
...identical, involves a mathematical theory of Einsteinian complexity.* Practically, the problem is to put the piano systematically and artistically out of tune, by equalizing the tonal distances between the black & white keys. In getting each note of the piano just enough out of tune, the piano tuner cannot trust to any such simple measuring device as his own sense of pitch. Once he has tuned up middle C with the aid of a tuning fork, he hammers away at fourths and fifths. He listens not to pitch but to the frequency of minute oscillations known as "beats," produced...
...Francen), who described himself as "an employer of spy labor." He was writing a biography of St. Francis. In Athens there was bulbous, unctuous Mr. Peters (Sydney Greenstreet). Mr. Peters was also in Belgrade and Paris. And everywhere there were whispers of a cryptic organization called the Eurasian Credit Trust, whose headman turned up for a climax of blackmail and gunfire, with Mr. Peters gasping his life out on a mess of thousand-franc notes. By then Author Leyden had gathered more "material" than he bargained...
First outcry against the Great Blueprint came not from U.S. internationalists, who still seemed willing to trust Mr. Roosevelt to any limit-but from the small nations of Europe. Cried Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco N. van Kleffens: "The smaller states are made to feel the burden of war no less, and often more acutely, than the very great powers. It seems reasonable, therefore, that they should have their due voice in attempts to prevent...