Word: considerably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One man had serious thoughts about the job. He was Alfred Schindler, a short, bouncy, cheerful conservative who had been Henry Wallace's Under Secretary for 17 months. A onetime feed salesman, he was on a speaking tour of the West Coast when word came from Washington that he...
"Martyr Complex." A month later Stepinac again criticized Tito's systematic efforts to discredit and disrupt the Catholic Church. He was jailed for 17 days, then summoned to Tito's presence. Said the Marshal of the Archbishop: "I consider that he suffers from a martyr complex."
To realize the paramount importance of this question, consider how simply other problems, which seem almost insoluble, would be resolved once we were sure of Russian intentions. We would know how to deal with the Muscovites in United Nations councils--Whether to be friendly and conciliating or tough and unyielding...
Most Europeans and a good many Americans consider Harvard the No. i U.S. university. Just as many, and perhaps more, Americans think of it as an overripe berry patch full of arrogant and precious snobs. For every man who admires Harvard for producing an Emerson, a Holmes, a Henry Adams...
But in the New England "vacation-land," August had indeed been wet, with 67% more rain than usual. Here was where psychology got its innings: vacationers consider wet or cloudy weather cold, even when the thermometer aver ages only a trifling two degrees below normal. And August is the month...