Word: downright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe," says he, "that I am not going too far in saying that [U.S.] education at the high-school level is mediocre. The fault does not lie with the teaching staff. The tenets of democratic egalitarianism are so strong in the United States that they assume a downright metaphysical importance. The postulate goes this way: All minds must have an equal chance at the start. They are like fertile fields; all that needs to be done is to sow them with method and prevent their differences from growing more marked, since differences contradict the principle of fundamental equality...
...combination of floating factory and ocean liner, but in the 18th and 19th centuries, the world's most powerful animal was hunted down in ships so small that the whale could, and sometimes did, butt them into driftwood. In all man's hunting, none has been so downright risky and exciting. As a result, no true armchair adventurer can easily bypass a readable new book about whaling...
...like to see younger musicians get ahead, too. But last week in San Diego, where he paused between concert tours, Cellist Piatigorsky took a swipe at an old method of helping young artists-musical competitions. Said he: "I shall never again be a contest judge. Too often they are downright absurd. Why insult and discourage 14, let us say, to honor or help one?" The last time he judged a contest. Piatigorsky said, he and his fellow judge, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, heard a singer, a flutist, a clarinetist and a composer. "Now how can one say who is best among...
...check the engine of a sports plane, zoomed mysteriously off to El Salvador, landing in a meadow en route to pick up a friend. Independent newspapers were reporting the hemisphere's growing sentiment against Arbenz' Communist-coddling with a factual thoroughness that the Reds regarded as downright traitorous. One midnight last week, with pressure building up, Arbenz assembled his Cabinet, which decreed a 30-day state of emergency suspending all civil liberties...
...suburban) is covered by Make Room for Daddy and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Cox and Actress Benoit can never hope to equal the eager smooching of Barry Nelson and Joan Caulfield (My Favorite Husband), the pratfalls of Joan Davis and Jim Backus (I Married Joan), or the downright silliness of Ray Milland and Phyllis Avery (Mr. McNutley). Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy) and Peg Lynch (Ethel and Albert) have all the first patents on feminine illogic, while Betty White (Life with Elizabeth) has staked out prior rights to the cuteness concession. Cox and his bride are too sweet...