Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race fans had not been sentimental enough to make him the favorite, but for one shining moment it looked as though he might come through. After lagging for half a mile behind horses that two years ago would only have been warmups for him, he began to cut his way through the pack. It was too late; the best he could do was third-and prize money...
Scientists know that the nonvolatile compounds in food are tasted; the volatile ones are both tasted and smelled. But why they taste or smell the way they do is still unknown. The chemical characteristics of a compound may have little to do with its taste. Cane sugar (sucrose) contains only carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, but it tastes much like saccharin, whose quite different molecule has nitrogen and sulphur atoms...
...hurt, he has lied to himself. Nor have his sons fared better-neither the boy who loved his father till he found him with a woman, nor the one who has never loved anything but a good time. His nerve going, his job gone, his boys slashing their way out of his dream, the truth clawing down one after another of his defenses, Willy Loman has no prop left except a loyal and loving wife. It is not enough. He can only kill himself...
...Publisher William Block and Editor Andrew Bernhard were dead set to make the Post-Gazette one of the two, if that was the way it had to be. Young (33), Yale-educated Bill Block inherited the paper from his father, the late Paul Block, in 1941.* He has been trying to cut its ties to the Republican Party and make it an "independent" paper ever since. Bernhard is a calm, competent veteran who came up the hard way...
Colonel Gordon E. Textor, a West Pointer with no newspaper experience, started the shakeup. The way it was done left the Zeitung staff dizzy. First Textor fired Foreign Editor Hans Lehmann for pro-Nazi leanings, though Textor had refused to approve Lehmann's dismissal for the same reason only three months ago. When twelve other German staffers resigned in protest, Textor named Bruce Buttles, an ex-Christian Science Monitor reporter and a civilian employee of the Army, as Zeitung publisher...