Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norval, assigned to set the pace for his stablemates, broke clear at once and led all the way to the final turn. By then, Djeddah had already faded but Coronation charged on to win by four lengths over Double Rose, paying 4-1 francs for 1. Said one dejected infielder as the numbers went up: "Encore une pour le trust [One more for the trust]." The sentimentalists did better: Love Goddess Hayworth's filly paid a handsome...
Switzerland's Karl Earth, founder of the potent "neo-orthodox" movement in modern Protestantism, has so far completed six massive volumes of his Kirch-liche Dogmatik, which may turn out to be the most imposing theological work of modern times. But Calvinist Barth is more than a theologian's theologian; he can also write brilliantly for laymen. Readers who are not frightened away by the dry crackle of its title will find Christian challenge and mental stimulus in a new Barth book published last week, Dogmatics in Outline (Philosophical Library...
Last week the Digest had not yet figured out how to turn Rose into nine other languages, including the Scandinavian...
Time was when any citizen who got tired of his radio could turn the thing off. But last week time was running out. A floodtide of sound-that-can't-be-turned-off was rising across...
...week, 65 young British lads and lassies had bundled into two B.O.A.C. planes, bound for New York. The girls, uniformly pretty, were outfitted in the latest British fashion, in the forlorn hope that dollar-heavy dowagers in the U.S. might be persuaded that London, as well as Paris, can turn out smart women's clothes. But the major part of their mission was far from forlorn. This week, socialites, diplomats and balletomanes were flocking to the Metropolitan Opera House to see them. Even at $9.60 top, not a seat was empty for the U.S. debut of the finest classical...