Word: clear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, hale & hearty Winston Churchill seemed prepared to go on clear into the 21st Century, if necessary. Said Winnie, who is fond of reminding rivals that Gladstone was Prime Minister at 82: "I never leave a pub before closing time...
...Manhattan meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard Professor Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese-born rocket expert from Caltech, on the prospects in rocketeering. Most of Dr. Tsien's paper was technical, e.g., how to keep the walls of combustion chambers from melting. But his conclusion was clear and startling: present-day technology is capable of building a transcontinental rocket ship...
...pictures in last week's show were not in the least moving, and they were the ones that proved how cold, competent and clear-eyed a painter Stuempfig is when he chooses not to be romantic. Dark, highly polished still lifes of vegetables on a table, they were so expertly done as to invite comparison with the 18th Century French master, Jean Baptiste Chardin...
...little more than a noisy excuse for meretricious salesmanship, for urging one & all to buy unwanted presents for their friends, to the profit of the dollar-hungry. For a month before the Feast, the cry is: 'Buy! Adeste Fideles. Nylons for your lady! . . . It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. What came, Mummy? Santa Claus, my dar-lings.' " So writes sharp-penned Canon Bernard Iddings Bell in the current Faith and Thought, bulletin of the Episcopal faculty and students at the University of Chicago. The deChristianizing of Christmas was also troubling other Christians last week. In Milwaukee, the community...
...nothing short of amazing that Katherino Griffith, who played as Patience, was able to sing at all, let alone in the remarkably clear and beautiful way that she did, for only two nights ago she finished singing the soprano part in Hamlel's "Messiah...