Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of "The Ark on Ararat" [TIME, April 25] was very erroneous. I do not know how well the artist has read the Bible, but if he will turn and read Genesis 6:16, he will find that the instructions were to put the door in the side and not in the end as he has. Also I think he will find that the Ark only contained one window and not the plurality he has pictured . . . The indication is that Noah opened the (one) window...
...approved the treaty, should proceed to furnish arms to Britain and the Western European powers. Under the waspish questioning of Missouri's legalistic Senator Forrest Donnell, he admitted he could not compute the exact dollar cost of U.S. surplus arms to be supplied. But, he added: "They may well be worth a lot more to us in the hands of somebody else than in a storehouse over here...
Tenants and landlords disguised their happiness well. Some tenants and labor groups quickly condemned the formula, but most weren't sure how the plan would affect them. The vocal, well-organized real-estate groups yelped in noisy pain. "It's a phony and a fraud," cried one big Boston apartment owner. Landlords claimed that Woods's formula was based on false mathematics, took no account of the value of their property. According to many landlords, they would be collecting only 2 to 3% on the "fair value" of their properties even if they could wangle an increase...
...when they are comfortably in the load. Were they to be pressed, however, the boat would go up to 40 for the final minute, and it is at such times that a crew's ability is really put to the test. It is only the instinctive ability to row well that can put a man through such a test...
According to reports filtering in by way of the coaches' grapevine, Springfield is a much improved, well-conditioned, hardhitting team. "It's a dangerous opponent," is the consensus...