Word: set
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first season Veeck took over, attendance jumped from 558,182 to over a million; two years later he set a big-league record...
Judging by what happened in Washington, it may well break the 2,500,000 attendance record set by last year's traveling exhibition of masterpieces from the Berlin Museum. The opening day's crush made even Manhattan's gum-cracking Daily News sit up and take notice...
Build a Fire. Howard called up redheaded Walker Stone, 45-year-old boss of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers' Washington bureau, gave him his assignment and told him: "Build a fire. Stir up the animals." Stone set Reporter Andrew Tully to prowling the corridors of the State Department, assigned Oland D. Russell, his Far Eastern expert, to dig up other angles, briefed Editorial Writer Parker La Moore on the campaign ahead. Cartoonist Harold Talburt sharpened his Pulitzer-Prizewinning pencil...
...London Times, which likes to set off brisk little intellectual bonfires in its famed letters column, found it had a red-hot religious discussion on its hands. A 2,000-word article by a "Special Correspondent," titled Catholicism Today: Relations between Rome and the Christian World, started it. While he praised the Roman Catholic Church for resistance to Communism, the Times writer questioned whether the Catholic "machinery of ecclesiastical government ... is at the present time perfectly adjusted to Christianity's universal mission. Having no 20th Century Aquinas, the Roman Church sometimes appears intellectually ill at ease in the modern...
Lord Vansittart protested such "preposterous and unprecedented" extensions of immunity at a time when all the countries of the Communist empire treat British and U.S. representatives "like stink." Answering Vansittart for the government, Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor, brought cheers when he announced that the government was setting up a committee to consider changes in the law which made Tass libel-proof. To illustrate Tass's mendacity, Viscount Jowitt read a Tass report in Moscow's Literary Gazette of how Londoners "supplement their starvation rations ... On Sundays, armed with guns and traps, [they] set...