Word: noting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Balkan statesmen were again getting the call from the Nazis, and Locomotive Führer went to see Nazidom's Führer. The conference took place secretly in Berlin. Afterwards only terse communiqués took note of the visit, and all the world took it for granted that Bulgaria would soon join the scramble for the Axis bandwagon. But a whole week passed by, and Bulgaria did not sign. Boris had weighed the odds and come to a pretty solution-for the time being...
...another occasion a youth appeared who said: "I am going to kill a man." While the young man babbled about doing something to the husband of his cutie, Mr. Anthony passed a note to his announcer suggesting that the client's coat be searched. In it was found a foot-long jack handle-"a fine instrument for murder," as Mr. Anthony now points out. From this distraught juvenile, Mr. Anthony won a promise not to do anything until the next day. By that time Mr. Anthony had a psychiatrist ready, who subsequently worked a cure...
...view of the current complaints of professionalism in big-time football, and of the machine-like drill it demands, it is refreshing to note that intercollegiate football can be played on a definitely small time basis and purely for its own sake, without the paraphernalia of publicity. And if the introduction of extensive intramural competition with Yale has done much to increase the success of House football, this might well be further extended in the other House sports...
...been a big gun throughout the history of the schools, helping to found them, contributing enormously to their growth, and, finally, giving them the shove that may well lead to their complete disappearance from the academic picture. This shove, Burton suggests, is a step that other colleges should note...
Novelist Roberts still did not have a bestseller. But his publishers began to note something else that pleased them just as much-a steady sale of Roberts books. Roberts was fast becoming something better than a best-seller-a publisher's property. He had started something with his historical novels. Suddenly U. S. readers forgot the proletarians, took up Anthony Adverse, then Gone With the Wind...