Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic vote against confirmation of Lewis Strauss as Commerce Secretary). Moreover, presidential candidates in the Senate are having a great deal of trouble keeping their luster in the current squabble over Democratic Party policy (see The Congress) and are suffering from overexposure to the voters. Aspiring Governors cannot claim to influence foreign policy, but they have not got onto the national stage enough to be boring; most of them have submitted balanced budgets, and all have tested their executive mettle in dealing with their legislatures...
...government's agricultural policies in a Peasant Poem, and no one inside China at the time was of a mind to doubt a single line of it. In 1959, Peking had declared, the nation's farms would outproduce by 40% even last year's staggering claim of 375 million tons of grain, which was already said to be nearly double the output of 1957. Western specialists were inclined to view this as exaggeration piled upon exaggeration (TIME, Dec. 1 et seq.), but still they were impressed...
...lumber around like cows." ¶Italy-"I don't know why, but they import all their strippers. Italian girls are only interested in the movies. It's like Hollywood 15 years ago; every girl is a starlet. I didn't meet one who didn't claim to have been in Ben Hur." ¶Denmark-"The emphasis is on vaudeville acts. One of the best had a man in an upper berth peering at a girl in a lower as she got ready for bed. They have lots of creative imagination over there. Danish girls...
...professors (198 last year) and has a higher proportion of foreign students (12.4%) than any other U.S. institution. Above all, M.I.T. has led in broadening scientists by trying to ground them as thoroughly in the liberal arts as in the arts of technology. For such achievements, Julius Stratton can claim major credit. No narrow specialist-he left Cambridge in 1923 to study French literature at the universities of Grenoble and Toulouse, still refreshes himself by reading French and German history in the original-Stratton is humanist as well as scientist. Under President (1930-48) Karl Compton, who first aimed M.I.T...
...that of the Soviet Union? Last week the National Bureau of Economic Research gave a qualified answer in its annual report: on a percentage basis, industrial output in Russia has risen more rapidly than in the U.S. since 1928, but only about one-fourth as rapidly as the Russians claim. Russia's growth statistics are peppered with gaps, probably omit some stagnant or declining industries, use highly doubtful totals. Most of Russia's gain has been the result of massive diversion of manpower to industry, a regimented movement roughly similar to the voluntary exodus to the cities that...