Word: unraveler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article "Bald Claims" [TIME, July 12] is highly significant from the point of view of modern scientific methodology. Those who have advocated experiment and observation have had a long uphill fight against their opponents, who claim that they can unravel the mysteries of nature by abstruse speculations in an armchair...
...crowded room in Washington, the Securities & Exchange Commission tried to unravel a mystery: Why had Financier Cyrus Eaton suddenly called off a deal to sell $11.7 million in stock for his old friend Henry Kaiser? This week, after two weeks of hearings, SEC had the inside story from Henry and Cy of the fiscal shennanigans that had set the old friends a-feuding...
...last-minute attempt to unravel the aid-to-China knot, the Senate Appropriations Committee last week summoned the man best qualified to present some firsthand facts. He was Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, whose report on his China mission had been locked up in State Department files ever since his return 14 weeks ago (TIME, Sept...
...Tihua, Gruin and Colin-Ho set about interviewing everybody who could help unravel the Sinkiang story. Most of their informants were as effusively evasive as the stocky Russian manager of Tihua's Sino-Soviet airport who said he wanted no pictures taken because "the airport is in bad repair and it would give a bad impression if printed in the magazine." After considerable argument Gruin was allowed to take two shots, carefully outlined before snapping. Then, for a firsthand view of the area where Chinese and Mongolian troops had been having a border fracas, they trucked across the gravel...
Miszlalcowice Mystery. So last week the world's statesmen (successors to Lecoq and Sherlock Holmes, rather than to Pitt and James Madison) were trying to unravel the real meaning of what happened when 17 men and a woman met at a hunting lodge in Miszlakowice, Poland, and there created a thing that Communists called the "Cominform" (meaning Communist Information Bureau) and which most of the rest of the world called the "New Comintern" or the "Little Comintern." To help them figure it out, the detective-statesmen had Dr. Watsons who were experts in everything from gamma rays to Lenin...