Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To millions of U.S. security holders in receivership railroads last week came important news: a new and comforting reorganization plan for giant Missouri Pacific Railroad (in bankruptcy since 1933) will soon be announced. When & if the new plan goes through, it may start a chain of revisions in other reorganization...
Harvard's erratic basketball team, which pursued a policy last year of upsetting Eastern League leaders at unexpected intervals, developed that habit again Saturday night at the expense of Princeton. Beaten in four straight games in the current race, the Crimson turned the trick by holding the Tigers to just...
Vag peered into the dark mail box just out of habit. "Never any on Sunday," he murmured as be bumped into a middle-aged tutor on his way upstairs. He flung open the door of Bob's room, but the "hello" died on his lips as the unexpected darkness blinded...
As unexpected as the mediocrity of the main feature is the merit of "Counter Espionage." In contrast to a second rate musical, the spectator finds a gripping tale of espionage in blacked out London. To be sure. Warren William as the suave Lone Wolf saves the girl and the British...
"The relationship between a liberal education and freedom is good sound American doctrine. ... I regret that during the last several decades we have had a tendency to overlook this important American fact. And I think we are paying the penalty for our shortsightedness in unexpected ways.