Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans who went were joined in Sofia by the New York Times's broad and breezy William H. Lawrence, who had come on from Bucharest. Things went swimmingly at first. A Sofia reporter met the Wall Street Journal's small, quiet Joe Evans over a drink, and was amazed. "We expected to see a bloated capitalist," he said...
...exceptionally able administrator who has long worked as Cardinal Spellman's right hand, the new archbishop began his career at 13 as a runner on the New York Curb Exchange. Though he wanted to become a priest, he stayed in Wall Street to support his ailing father, in 16 years had worked his way up to be office manager of a brokerage house. After his father died, he began studying for the priesthood...
...voice of Nemo belongs to a studio announcer (Phil Tonken), but the words come from 68-year-old Charles S. Partridge, who is a prophet by avocation. Partridge is a bashful, thermometer-straight, sparse-haired little old gentleman who makes his living as a copyreader for the Wall Street Journal. Ever since he was a boy in Selma, Ala., Partridge has had a countryman's healthy interest in the weather. About 25 years ago he decided to get a scientific background. For five years he visited the Weather Bureau every day, and read hundreds of meteorology books...
With the development of pure science came the foundation of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and this was the handwriting on the wall for the Lawrence Scientific School, for it was absurd for the University to have a schism in its science training...
...aside from the gags and the wall-shaking blobs of oratory, the most lasting impression created by Elliott's speech was that the men in the Kremlin are black-hearted so-and-sos, while by comparison, we are a bunch of choir boys...