Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What books the morgue doesn't buy are apparently made up for by the members of TIME Inc. who, according to our Book Service Department, bought better than 6,000 books last year for their own use. As of last week, BSD reports, TIME'S bestseller list is headed by the following four books: Churchill's Memoirs, The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene, The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer...
...Orly Airport in Paris to denounce the "day of mourning" called for Aug. 22 by a group of Protestant ministers (TIME, Aug. 16). Said the group: "The position taken is unbiblical, unpatriotic, and un-American ... To teach youth to be conscientious objectors, to defy lawful civil authority ... is to use the church as a fifth column...
...Hungarians are especially interested in Esperanto because their language is so far removed from any other, except Finnish and Estonian. Only two words derived from the Hungarian -goulash and coach-are in common use in English...
...trend toward decentralization has already set in, partly because the Gimo has had to rely on trusted local commanders in remote areas to equip and organize their own commands. In North China, local authorities have been buying arms for militia forces independent of the Central government, and the use of silver dollars (banned by the Central government in 1935) has spread. In Manchuria, General Wei Li-huang has recruited, equipped and trained four new divisions. Without the Ginio at the head of the government, the splintering process would be speeded up. Divided, the Nationalist military leaders would be easier pickings...
...couple spent most of their time in Britain, where they lived in lush disregard for austerity. The Maharaja lengthened his fabulous string of race horses (estimated to be worth $1,000,000), built a chromium-studded training establishment atop Warren Hill, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire (despite local indignation over this use of scarce building materials...