Word: conventionalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
To effect the switch, which had, of course, to be accomplished in one week, the staff of our Chicago traffic department worked seven weeks on such preliminary steps as making new address plates for the independent wholesalers and changing dispatch schedules and routings on truck, rail and air lines. When...
A key figure, obviously, is Vice President Richard Nixon, who is 42. The Vice President would move into the race with two main handicaps : 1) a long Democratic smear campaign against Nixon, which will be used in his own party as evidence that he is a poor candidate; and 2...
In a confident-and perhaps overconfident-frame of mind, the Stevenson men had already counted their convention delegates. They decided that they already had enough votes (about 600), including reasonably solid delegations from Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Indiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona. Rhode Island, New Jersey, North Carolina, West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi...
Miller explained some of the details that makes the second of these plays different from his earlier works as well as from contemporary realism. He used the technique of the Greek Drama, in this case substituting a narrator for the chorus, to heighten the dramatic effect. While the play is...
¶ Adopted a record annual budget of $6,807,947.84 for the next three years (up about $1,000,000 over the last convention's budget), of which $4,920,826.15 is earmarked for domestic and foreign missions.