Word: utterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ilya Ehrenberg in the Pravda, official Moscow newspaper, stating that Heinrich Bruening, professor of Government, was "the Fuehrer of the German Catholics" and had put forth "his candidacy as the heir to Hitler" were termed by Professor Bruening Sunday evening in an interview with the SERVICE NEWS as "utter nonsense--every word--from beginning...
Desolation and utter confusion were the reactions yesterday to Dean Hanford's announcement that the University intends to rip down old, oft-condemned Shepherd Hall, which has housed the Harvard Crimson Network, the Harvard Liberal Union, the Harvard-Radcliffe Post-War Council, the Freshman Red Books, and the Senior Albums...
...also a less poetic one. In The Tempest, with its wonderful language, words speak louder than actions; not everybody in the Webster production knew how to utter them. Arnold Moss was a sonorous and commanding Prospero, Frances Heflin a sensitive Miranda. But as Ariel, Ballerina Vera Zorina let a good many speeches dwindle, and her grace was cold rather than sunlit. As Caliban, Negro Actor Canada Lee could not (like Shakespeare) make poetry of ugliness. Stressing the rather dull comedy also shattered the mood; the revolving stage was more practical than atmospheric. This generation may never see a livelier Tempest...
...results of their adventure. They had accounted for some 150 bridges, 50 roadblocks, 20 to 30 ferries, one tunnel, an assortment of locomotives, trucks, army hostels, one Catholic mission and a machine shop. But they had helped slow the Japanese advance on Kweichow, had helped save from utter disaster the great retreat in Southeast China...
...three of its crew had slipped from its net and had been fished out. The destroyer's skipper, noticing that Ladwig's breath was fumy with gasoline, ordered the ship's smoking lamp doused (i.e., "no smoking"). Only then did Ladwig feel it was safe to utter a long "Whew...