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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midwesterner, "that when I got old, I would not work such long hours, but here I am." He approves every idea, each sugary line on each card in his huge assortment. He keeps constant tab on the profit sharing, health insurance, hours and pay of his some 5.000 employees, even inspects the food served in the company cafeteria. When he rejects something, he is liable to do it without giving reasons, says only that his decisions come from "the vapor of experience." Out of this fog has come an almost uninterrupted string of correct answers on what cards the fickle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Greeting Card King | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Logic, argues Russell, cannot provide a man with a set of ethical beliefs. Russell does not even claim to know why he himself believes in the virtue of free inquiry, though logic can tell him the implications of such a belief: "If, for example, it is held that one should act with honesty, then this does not depend on the size, shape or color of those with whom one happens to be dealing. In this sense, then, the ethical problem gives rise to the conception of the brotherhood of man. It is a view first stated explicitly in the ethical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wrangler's World | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Nothing like this Region Study has even been done," declared Raymond Vernon, professor of International Trade and Investment, and director of the Metropolitan Region Study. "We have spent $600,000 in grants from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefellers and a staff of more than 40 professional people have worked over three years on the project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Handlin Analyzes Racial Problems In Third Volume of Regional Study | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...freshman football team produced several individual standouts this season but was never able to function as a well-balanced unit for any length. Even so, Henry Lamar's eleven was able to finish with a respectable 3-3 record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Individual Backfield Aces Dominate Yardling Football Team's 3-3 Season | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...film is downright healthy. There are no suicides, incests, miscegenations, divorces, or even race prejudices. In the end three or four recognition scenes suddenly blossom out of a fertile but rather parched story, and all is saved. Will Varner recognizes what a real chip off the old chopping block his son Jody is, when Jody tries to burn him to death; Clara, Varner's daughter, played in a vaguely disappointing way by Joanne Woodward, finds out that the guy she's loved for five years doesn't have any desire to crawl into bed with her, married or unmarried...

Author: By Martin Nemirow, | Title: The Long, Hot Summer | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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