Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallach's statement went on, "Father Feeney is a man rightly repudiated by his parish, his Order, and by his Church at Rome. His is the mentality that applied the torch to the medieval fagots of the Inquisition; his is the dogmatism that forced Galileo to recant and burned St. Joan of Arc. His is the bigotry at which sincere Churchmen pale with horror...
Dark Days. It was worth all the trouble; the Dallas Hilton was a whopping success. Hilton branched out throughout Texas and formed Hilton Hotels, Inc. (succeeded in 1946 by Hilton Hotels Corp.). When the depression hit, and an estimated 80% of all U.S. hotels went bankrupt, he was far overexpanded. He hurried from hotel to hotel, yanking out the room telephones and closing off some of the floors to cut costs. When a guest asked for ink, a bellhop would ceremoniously pour out enough to write one letter...
...careful menu-planning, and this year have spent $215,000 improving dining facilities in the Dayton Biltmore, alone. (In the Stevens, they discovered that only two orders for finnan haddie had been placed in one month, one by Vice President Herndon, the other by Hilton; off the menu went finnan haddie...
...repeatedly reminded of folks around the office. Once he got the Zoo idea, he looked at thousands of zoological portraits before he tackled Doubleday with a choice lot. Enthusiastic but careful, the publisher tried it out in a real white-collar city, insurance capital Hartford, Conn., where Zoo went like animal crackers during a kindergarten recess. Published on July 7, it hit the bestseller lists in two weeks, headed them in two months and has stayed firmly on top ever since. Last week, with over 260,000 copies sold, it was moving over the counters...
Twenty-seven states and 24 colleges and universities were represented in the new list of Rhodes Scholars, with the Ivy League colleges dominating the list. There were 32 winners from the field of 412 competitors and 12 of the awards went to members of the Ivy League schools...