Word: write
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oceanic calm of Oxford remains undisturbed by my article in Isis magazine [TIME, Oct. 24]. Americans write me, however, and urge me to "give the Limeys another smack." They are determined to picture me as a wholesome American youth pointing the finger of shame at drunken, decadent Oxford. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am no youth, and Oxford is not decadent...
...Gustavus Capito of Charleston, W. Va. is a good example of the kind of coverage TIME's Music department attempts. Dr. Capito used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. A fortnight ago the biggest Charleston symphony audience in history heard the result...
...Thousands of people write to me every December. My greatest delight has been in filling their requests and doing little things to make them happy. I receive many heart-breaking letters at Christmas time. Our post office is not a cold business institution...
...congratulations himself. Ten years earlier, when he was a 28-year-old lecturer at Japan's Osaka University, Yukawa had taken the next step beyond the theory of nuclear fission with his brilliantly propounded theory of the meson. It had taken him more than a year simply to write out the mathematical formula through which he arrived at his conclusion: that a previously unknown type of particle was a clue to the force that held the nucleus of the atom together. Two years later the unknown particle was verified by Dr. Carl D. Anderson in laboratory experiments, and later...
This time Bemelmans pops the cork in a village of the Tyrol, where he spent part of his boyhood. Out comes a bubbling mixture of beautiful spies who refuse to be seduced, mountaineers who outwit pockmarked Nazis, and emigrant sons who write home from America: "Chopping wood one day recently, I cut off my left thumb and the cat got it ... and ate it. I am now forced to stay idle. Send me some money...