Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doug Pirnie and Charley Smith are favored to sweep the 60-yard dash, and hurdlers Don Donshue and Don MacKinnon should come in one-two in the 80-yard high hurdles. John Bunker and Bob Partlow will score heavily in the high jump, and the latter is favored to cop...
Now on exhibition at the Vatican is the model of a combination church and air-raid shelter, built of cement with a V-shaped roof, camouflaged, complete with altar, pews, first-aid equipment. Dry comment of the papal newspaper, Osservatore Romano: "An unexpected development in the history of Christian art...
The steelmen fired back. Their stand: the U. S. has plenty of capacity already, and if it hasn't, let civil needs be curtailed, the supply rationed. They cited one of their tribal elders, Cleveland Trust Co.'s economic essayist Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, who has turned up...
Friday afternoon the President conferred first with the Secretaries of War and Navy, then with the NDAC. It was getting dark when Secretary Steve Early went out into the anteroom, told the few newsmen that whatever was to be said would have to come later from the Boss himself. Then...
Last week a big part of the answer came from the best possible and most unexpected source : hulking, close-mouthed William S. Knudsen. who gave up the $300,000-a-year presidency of General Motors last summer to join the National Defense Advisory Commission (for nothing) as head of its...