Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his generalized form, and his ability to adapt himself to changing environment, brought on the scene the 'lord of creation' who was flexible enough to survive a variety of changes . . . This generalization has been both the strength and the weakness of man . . . While . . . specialized species either perished ... or stagnated in static societies . . . man rose from precariousness to precariousness . . . The point I want to make is that biological specialization can eventually lead to ... destruction or to a treadmill of repetition...
...publishers," said he, "are threatened by television's sudden rise. That the publishers realize this is demonstrated by the fact that about half of the applications for television licenses have been filed by newspapers . . . According to many surveys and tests, television advertising has a sharper impact than advertising either in the newspaper or over the radio. When, therefore, five years from now . . . there are 11 million television-equipped homes in America, as against the present figure of only some 400,000, a not inconsiderable portion of our free American press may be headed toward becoming a bankrupt press...
...liked. Her principal hobbies are her home and husband, sewing-dressmaking-knitting, gardening, sports, music, reading. She received a gift of flowers or candy on three or more occasions last year-and, in case anyone is interested, the one gift she would like most to have this year is either an automobile, a fur coat, some household appliance, a radio or radio-phonograph, some clothes, a trip, or a home (one asked for a man and an engagement ring and another, bless her, would like a five-year subscription to TIME). Furthermore, the average TIME-reading woman thinks the chances...
...There are trigger-happy, sadistic law officers in the South, too many of them. But I challenge Mr. Sprigle to produce any sheriff who has either won or even run on such a platform, who was ever re-elected after a term characterized by the slaying of guiltless, unarmed Negroes. Mr. Sprigle is guilty of slanted selectivity throughout his narrative...
...word of warning last week. Dr. Samuel Gelfan of the Yale University School of Medicine explained that the pressurized cabin, which has solved many of the problems of high-altitude flying, has in turn created a new and equally tough problem: explosive decompression. The trouble can be caused either by a leak in the tightly sealed cabin or by a sudden failure of the pressurizing equipment...