Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Network televisers, regarded by the moviemakers as dangerous rivals, complain that they cannot afford Hollywood's price for anything better than westerns and ancient grade B's. Independent station WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, has been solving the problem by importing good movies; last year, it bought from Sir Alexander Korda the rights to 24 British films. Now that the last Korda movies are being televised, WPIX is ready with a new 13-film package-a mixed bag of eleven English and two American hits of a decade...
...concert contract in hand. Father Wasner came along as the family chaplain, by special dispensation of his bishop. "How I hated this country at first," Mrs. Trapp says. "Oblong envelopes and mayonnaise on pears!" But the family was soon making $1,000 a concert, and she thought better of the country. "It's so big," she exclaims, "and I love to make long-distance calls!" All the Trapps are now U.S. citizens, have dropped their titles...
...enslavement of Soviet scientists. The test case is biology, his own science. He tells how, step by step, Trofim Lysenko, a "scientifically illiterate" plant-breeder, was enthroned as absolute boss of Soviet biology with all his opponents "dismissed or disgraced." Dr. Huxley knows Lysenko and considers him a better politician than a scientist. In conversations he found that Lysenko and his followers "simply do not talk the same language as Western men of science." Much of Professor Huxley's long article consists of quotations from Soviet official scientific bodies and officially approved scientists. They clearly show that Soviet scientists...
Schweitzer and Ortega. Both were optimistic about the status of human standards in the world today; both stood in agreement that man is good, and that, through his own efforts coupled with divine aid, he could better himself and his lot. Ortega welcomed, as normal and healthy, the doubts that now & again besiege humanity. Schweitzer felt that mankind was able, in fact dutybound, to take on fuller responsibilities...
...they install a high-compression cylinder head, a dual manifold and a special camshaft. After months of work and $800 to $1,200 spent for parts, they have a racer that will turn up 140 h.p., capable of speeds over 100 miles per hour. They have been clocked at better than 140 m.p.h. at the Southern California Timing Association's Muroc Dry Lake track, a center of U.S. "hot-rod" racing...