Word: difference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wondered where Father Bing O'Crosby went when he walked off into the night, Leo McCarey has provided an answer, hopefully attempting to repeat his former success. But his often knavish imitation gives his audience the uneasy feeling of seeing the same movie twice, while his efforts to differ in details lead him to inconsistency...
Everybody's doing it. Harvard plans to abolish the free elective system. Colgate has rebuilt its curriculum around a "core" of seven required courses. In Yale's "Experimental Program," students take prescribed courses for the first two years. The postwar educational models differ somewhat in chromium extras, but in one way all are alike: students will have less chance at the wheel than their immediate predecessors...
...wish to have prosperous customers. . . . We, like you, believe in an expansive economy. ... You will see us embarking on projects of nationalization. . . . You, it may be, will continue in your more individualistic methods. It is more important that we should understand each other and other nations whose institutions differ from...
Their backgrounds differ also. New York State-born Lindsay, 56, has been close to the footlights since he gave public recitations as a child, of such ditties as When You See a Man in Woe, Walk Right Up and Say Hello. Carrying a spear, working in tent shows, Shakespeare, burlesque, he found his feet in the '20s as a director (Dulcy, Gay Divorce), founded his fortune in the '30s as a playwright (She Loves Me Not). Eighteen years ago he married delicate, blond Dorothy Stickney (the original Mother in Life With Father), whom a wag once described...
...parties are for independence, nationalism, turning the Jap rascals out. Where they differ is on methodology, nationalizing industry, and on local issues. After years of political frustration there are few strong personalities. One is plump, man-of -good-will Woon Heung Lyuh (pronounced Yuh), 60, head of the provisional commission for rebuilding Korea, nucleus of party No. 3. He is out of circulation at the moment (it appears there were a couple of fist fights). Lyuh told me he wants to set all good Koreans - Communists included - help the reconstruction...