Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boundary marker inscribed "Europe" on one side and "Asia" on the other; a leisurely trip up the Volga in a side-wheel steamer left over from Czarist days. "Everywhere I went," said Stevenson politely at a farewell reception in Moscow, "I saw signs and heard speeches urging people to catch up with American production of butter, milk and meat, but in one area you don't have to catch up with America, and that is hospitality...
...Arthur Jansen, partner in W. E. Burnet & Co.: "The market is too high. At these levels it would take a couple of years for the improvement in earnings to catch up with market prices. If someone came to me with money to invest, I'd advise putting part of it in the bank...
Russia's official style of architecture has long been stuck back in the Woolworth Building era. But the design of the U.S.S.R.'s hangar-like pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, with its glass walls and trussed cantilevers, shows that Soviet architects are striving to catch up. If they want to take some tips from American building, they have an opportunity in a handsome, 82-panel photographic display of what is best and most typical in U.S. architecture today, on view this week at Moscow University. The first exhibit of U.S. building in the U.S.S.R. since...
...points better than Johnson's own world-record 7,985. The Russians shortened the interval between events from half an hour to 20 minutes, but it bothered Rafe not a bit. "I like the interval even shorter," he said, "only about five or ten minutes to catch my breath." With the event half over...
...getting the Sunpapers. "It's a profitable property-I'm afraid they're not going to sell," he admits. But he was optimistic about adding other links to his chain. "I plan to keep going," he says. "I don't think I'll catch Hearst or Scripps-Howard in my lifetime, but I think my boys Don and Si will give it a good...