Word: although
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...piece about Thackeray, accusing him, among other things, of "an extravagant adulation of birth and position." Thackeray accused Yates of picking up gossip at the Garrick Club and managed to have him blackballed. Dickens, who had been the subject of a flattering piece in the first issue, defended Yates, although he condemned the article and wrote that the entire incident, which had become a literary sensation, was "a frightful mess, muddle, complication and botheration." The incident definitely scarred Dickens' and Thackeray's relationship. Yates remembered it bitterly all his life, and in the issue of Time for January...
...months, very profitable magazine. In 1884, five years after founding Time, he gave up its editorship. The year before, in The World, he had managed to turn out a spicy paragraph on the Earl of Lonsdale which the court found libelous. He served seven weeks in prison and, although he went on writing after his release, his health broke down. In 1894, he died. Time, which continued under various editors, finally ceased publication in 1891. Although no figures can be found, its circulation probably did not exceed 2,000 monthly copies...
When all was said & done, the communiqué reflected the situation of allies who had agreed to disagree and still remain friends. Harry Truman had not brought Clement Attlee over to his views, although he had reassured him on some points; Attlee had not brought Truman around to his views, although the President had been reassured that Britain wanted to stand by the U.S. The talks and the communiqué also indicated an apparent disposition on Mr. Truman's part to search for some area of negotiation with Red China, though clearly he was not ready to toss...
...year-old Washington spinster named Margaret Shipman read the news of his incarceration with fire in her eye. Last week Miss Shipman, a wiry, retired schoolteacher who once circulated petitions for Sacco & Vanzetti, decided to rush to the rescue. Although she had never met Browder until the day before, she marched into Washington district court, dug 15 new $100 bills out of her battered handbag and demanded his release. Was she a Communist? reporters wanted to know. "Now that's none of your business," she said "and don't you make up anything." The authorities counted...
Sophomore Forest Hansen will open at guard for his classmate, Jim, Urdan. Although not a particularly good set-shot, Hansen plays a very aggressive game. He scores most of his points by putting up rebounds, despite the fact that he is less than six feet tall...