Word: planets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winters ago were astounded to hear a ballplayer guest-starring on Information Please. He hit safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...
What Wendell Willkie contributed to the world in 1941 was epitomized by words he spoke last week: "Never has there existed such hope for mankind as there exists today. Never has there existed on the surface of this planet so many human beings who know what freedom is and who are determined that ... it shall endure. . . . During the last ten years the democratic peoples have learned in painful lessons what democracy . . . asks of us, and what we must deliver in the future if it is to survive. Out of this great knowledge and our great yearning, we can say with...
...Wall Street crash of '29. Now (1930-34), as the world's disease narrows its carbuncular focus in Germany, Sinclair narrows his, too - though never to the exclusion of the view that the responsibility for Naziism is as broad as the surface of the planet. He manages to whip in a good deal of data on the U.S., England, France; on such symptomatic side shows as the Lindbergh kidnap scare, Basil Zaharoff's patronage of mediums, and the game of put-&-take played at the Geneva Arms Limitation Conference. But he draws his most serious bead...
Although for many months the people of Britain have wished for a U.S. declaration of war on the Axis, last week Britons began to realize that total war on the planet meant totally new problems...
...crack train. Before it died it gave birth to another storm which, in its ripeness, did spectacular work in New York City. In its birth, its life, its reproduction, its death, it worked in intimate counterpoint with the shapes and shifts of air upon the whole surface of the planet...