Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Harry Truman laid down the same domestic program he has been championing for the last three years, in his forceful State of the Union address to Congress yesterday. With certain exceptions, he presented that lineup of legislative goals to the past two Congresses. And, with certain exceptions, those two bodies rejected the presidential suggestions. Yesterday, of course, there was an important difference--the Eighty-First Congress. The dominant note of suspicion and outright hostility between legislative and executive have vanished. Once more there is a victorious party in control of both governmental branches, a party elected on a platform...
...singing voice is pleasant but weak and is not (as with Ethel Merman, her partner and predecessor in this glorification of vulgarity) a thing which is funny in itself. Miss Walker must rely on her wide variety of comical walks, certain headgear which always manages to get in her eyes, outlandish get-ups which frequently hide all but that jutting chin, and a face that could never be forgiven, were it anything but funny. Above all this, Miss Walker has the common touch. (To which she would surely reply: "If its common...
...TIME of Dec. 13 . . . after stating that Whittaker Chambers produced certain papers during the course of depositions taken by me as attorney for Alger Hiss...
...Dieckmann went from Germany to France, told other scholars his theory that the Diderot manuscript was still in existence somewhere. One day a scholar casually remarked that he thought he might have seen the Dream while going through the family papers of a certain Baron Jacques Le Vavasseur, Diderot's direct descendant. Apparently, Diderot's daughter had passed on a whole batch of papers to her descendants. The family had let only two untrained amateurs take a look: it thought the less said about Diderot's escapades and radical ideas the better. Dieckmann got only a curt...
...Many Slide Rules. In addition, AEC was charged with failing to bring certain problems out of the physicist's slide-rule realm into the everyday trial-&-error world of engineers who might solve them and perhaps make good use of the results in other industries. For example, Committee Member Isaac Harter, director of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd., got an idea from an atomic process that helped his company refine its continuous steel casting process...