Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PRESS) . . . In Colorado, G.O.P. State Chairman Edgar Elliff, asked by a newsman to assess the Eisenhower popularity, replied scornfully: "Which Eisenhower do you mean-Dwight or Edgar?" . . . And with the smiling approval of other Republican Senate bigwigs, Minority Leader William Knowland baited the Republican President by regularly upping the amount by which he thought the Eisenhower budget should be cut (Bill's latest figure: $3 billion...
...allow themselves to be taken in by the inaccurate propaganda of the friends of Russia is hard to understand." The facts are, said Cherwell, that "the number of gamma rays we get from the radioactive materials in the walls of our houses is 50 times greater than the amount to which we are exposed by the nuclear tests. If the protagonists of stopping the tests had any logic in their being, they ought to tell us all to go and live in tents...
...crystals in it sublime, i.e., turn directly into water vapor without melting to water. Pharmaceutical manufacturers use freeze-drying to preserve sensitive drugs, but the process is difficult, and it had never been successfully adapted to low-cost materials like foods. Another difficulty is that a considerable amount of heat (heat of sublimation) is required to evaporate the ice crystals. This heat must reach the center of the material, and in the case of most foods the evaporation of crystals near the surface forms a layer of corklike stuff that is an excellent insulator. It keeps heat of sublimation from...
...amount of the grant is approximately...
Whatever may be its "meaning," The Strange One is unquestionably something of a technical achievement. Garfein's direction is brilliant. With an acute sense of timing, he carefully constructs each scene to extract the greatest possible amount of tension from it; and although this is his first motion picture, his camera work, which makes extensive use of probing close-up shots, is that of an expert. Equally accomplished is the acting of Ben Gazzara, who in his first film makes De Paris into an intense and haunting, if not exactly lovable, figure...