Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...satisfy the experts among TIME'S readers, and be clearly understandable to the uninitiated, as well. That is not an easy assignment, and Smith spends considerable time out of the office (e.g., the 1948 Olympic Games in London) keeping abreast of a dozen sports, getting the color, the background, and the "inside" details, that are vital to a successful TIME Sport story...
There were always in the background of his life his sisters, as there was always in the back of his mind his bitter youth to direct his imagination. So influential do the sisters seem to have been that one of the greatest weaknesses of Author Elias' biography is that he does not tell considerably more about them. The best of Dreiser's writing, Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, surely reflected their lives as much...
Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, made the survey to see how social and financial background affect a student's future hopes and outlooks. He intends to compare the results with surveys in other countries and cultures...
...recently, after the sun had set over Madrid, a "group of Spanish Jews met in a small, neat, new synagogue. On the walls hung the white and blue banner of Israel; the traditional nine candles stood against a background of gold-embroidered drapery. When the candles were lighted, old men in black skull caps joyfully started to chant the ancient Hanukkah hymn. The younger ones barely remembered the words. Once more, the Jews of Spain, who used to be the world's richest and proudest, had an open, permanent place of worship. A bent old man sighed...
...frequent use of the phrase "off the record" gave a new boost to an old, and often helpful, journalistic practice. It permitted top Government officials to let down their hair before the press -without getting into trouble in the process. By giving a frank-and unquotable-explanation of the background behind official actions, bigwigs had often helped reporters do a better job of interpreting the news. But the handy phrase has long since gotten out of hand. Last week Managing Editor Norman E. Isaacs of the St. Louis Star-Times charged that editors who persisted in kowtowing...