Word: creeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark Twain's classic rules for fiction, reflected Morris in a rare burst of pedantry, included: "Employ a simple and straightforward style," "Eschew surplusage," and "Accomplish something and arrive somewhere." Why, then, did English courses of every variety let James creep in through the trap door under the lectern? Why, on the other hand, did most courses on American literature ignore Thomas Wolfe...
...inertial navigation-a new means of finding latitude and longitude wholly without external reference points. Last week it was also used in the Arctic by the U.S.S. Skate, will go in even more sophisticated form into all the Navy's nuclear submarines, some of them designed to creep deep in enemy underwaters with the Polaris missile...
Mark Twain's classic rules for fiction, reflected Morris in a rare burst of pedantry, included: "Employ a simple and straightforward style," "Eschew surplus age," and "Accomplish something and arrive somewhere." Why, then, did English courses of every variety let James creep in through the trap door under the lectern? Why, on the other hand, did most courses on American literature ignore Thomas Wolfe...
With Jock's jack in hand, hard-working Brownie Reid enriched his improvement formula, reorganized and improved news coverage and the editorial page, happily watched circulation creep up to 37,400 by March. But as the Trib struggled and talked wistfully of the desirability of going to 10? on the city newsstands (the afternoon-paper price in New York City), the Times held coolly to its 5? price and made money, while the Trib, competitively held at a nickel, slipped into...
DRESS PRICES will creep up by summer as result of 8% wage increase won in dress strike (TIME, March...