Word: reporting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...police report last week on Steve Early's greatest mistake. Of all the reports, it alone was terse...
...This report was no fantasy from the mind of an idle reporter. In World War I Italy used the MAS (motor torpedo boat), the Grillo (a strange naval tank with spike-studded treads for climbing over harbor booms), and the piloted torpedo -prototype of last week's "secret" weapon...
Harvard has another "living fossil" and it's not a member of the faculty. A report published by Harold J. Coolidge, Assistant Curator of Mammals, in the Harvard Museum Monograph today, indicates that the specimen of a wild ox or kouprey presented to the museum last year is an entirely new genus close to the ancestral line of modern domestic cattle...
...book is clear, accurate, but not brilliant. He is apt to sacrifice speed of narrative for the sake of coverage. He is polite to rival agencies, balances Roy Howard's famed false flash on the Armistice that ended World War I by telling of AP's false report of the Hauptmann trial verdict...
...love for privacy. When the 37th Street store was built in 1905, Tiffany avoided telling anything about his business even to a banker. He paid $2,000,000 cash for the land, $2,000,000 cash for the building. To this day Tiffany & Co. has never published a financial report. Extremely inactive, the closely held stock sometimes does not change hands for years. Last known sale: three shares last summer at $465 a share. But in a 1932 lawsuit Tiffany & Co. reluctantly said sales in the preceding 40 years were $350,000,000. Fellow tradesmen put boom-year gross...