Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perry Mason (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The hero of Erie Stanley Gardner's world series is a bit overweight and slow afoot in the TV version, but his win-loss record is as good as it ever...
...final examinations and there was an examination in William James' course. She sad down with the examination paper before her and she just could not begin to work. "Dear Professor James,' she wrote at the top of her paper, 'I am sorry but really I don't feel a bit like an examination paper in philosophy today,' and left...
From key industries, the reports last week showed a picture of recovery marching forward, solid and continuing. Items: ¶ Auto output dipped a bit, but still cruised on 7% ahead of 1958. Most of the decline (down to 117,050 units, v. 119,678 the week before) was caused by parts shortages, but production is expected to rise again this week. American Motors, still working a six-day week, kept producing and selling Ramblers apace. ¶ Steel production, though somewhat behind the forecasts, set a 19-month high with 76.9% of rated capacity and 2,178,000 tons' actual...
...instructing them how to make, repair and service the postage meters. Wheeler accepted the decree with grace: "We believe in the antitrust legislation and what it has done for the country. We hope other companies do come in. We don't think competition will hurt us one bit...
...author normally begs his publisher for a handout. But Daniel Skipton is no normal author. Pamela Hansford Johnson has modeled him on that unholy terror Frederick William Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo," who was recently reintroduced to U.S. readers in his previously unpublished novel Nicholas Crabbe (TIME, Feb. 2). Rolfe bit every hand that fed him and died penniless in Venice in 1913. Novelist Johnson has changed his name and shifted time and place to modern Bruges in Belgium, but she has kept intact his characteristics. Skipton boasts a Corvo-like title: Bulgarian "Knight of the Most Noble Order...