Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...flat a good deal of the time . . . she cannot sing with anything approaching professional finish . . . she communicates almost nothing of the music she presents ... It is an extremely unpleasant duty to record such unhappy facts about so honestly appealing a person. But as long as Miss Truman sings as she . . . does. . . we seem to have no recourse unless it is to omit comment on her programs altogether...
...production effort, e.g., he oversees the new National Production Authority. He also controls the nation's exports & imports and such enterprises as the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the U.S. Weather Bureau system, the U.S. highway system and inland waterways. He is a conservative lawyer with a long moneymaking record as promoter-businessman...
...under any circumstances, and the Korean disaster has alarmed and discouraged them. But the U.S.'s prestige does not depend on current setbacks or advances. Italians have seen too many of war's ups & downs to appraise the U.S. solely or even mainly on the Korean military record...
...given a chance at the weights: New York's Palestinian, California's On Trust and the 1946 Triple Crown winner, Assault. Noor, beaten three times in three starts at Belmont in the fall, was back in form; in a tune-up race, he broke the Hollywood track record for a mile and an eighth. Hill Prince had matched this with a smashing mile-and-a-quarter trial. Next Move had won two stakes races in two weeks...
...setting a blistering pace, closely followed by Palestinian and Assault. Noor got moving on the turn (see cut), blazed down the stretch to win by a length over Palestinian. Hill Prince was three lengths farther back, with Next Move fourth, Ponder fifth. Noor's drive set a track record of 1:59 4/5 for the mile and a quarter, and made him the leading money-winner of the year...