Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tragedienne Judith Anderson. Her father, Gregory Koreff, onetime Moscow Art Theater actor, fascinated her as a child with his living-room characterizations ("in the Stanislavsky tradition") in the family's East Side apartment. But because her mother wanted her to dance, and because she liked dancing better than school, Nora headed for the Metropolitan...
When John Greenleaf Whittier wrote these lines, he believed, with most of his 19th Century fellow optimists, that mankind was slowly but surely working its way through history to a better world. Science, statecraft and scripture, they thought, were leading men together to the same goal-the establishment of God's kingdom upon earth...
...arranging the seminar. One basic conclusion about the local job market: for certain specialists, jobs will still be plentiful. Dieticians, nurses, teachers, metallurgical and ceramic engineers should have no trouble at all. Chemical and mechanical engineers will also be in fairly good demand, though some will have a better chance if they go East after graduation. Nonspecialists, however, have a different kind of problem...
Among the food companies, Corn Products Refining Co. led the parade by more than doubling its profit-to $3,314,562. But General Foods probably gave a better indication of the general trend. Its gross was up slightly to $127,802,860, but rising costs cut its net from $8,155,176 to $7,593,797. Even the airline and aircraft industries, which had long been ailing, were perking up. Prime example: Douglas Aircraft Co., which had earned only $23,862 in 1948's first quarter, this year earned $2 million, the result of rearmament contracts and a cost...
Sartre's writing is occasionally much better than this pathological reverie, and in spots the book has an ingenuity and sharpness of detail worthy of first-rate talent. But the paradox of the central vision in Nausea is so forced and barefaced that most readers will not be able to accept it as anything but a perversion of the truth, a degenerated twisting of the classic experience of Western...