Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everything that a well-informed person should know." Since 90% of its press run is mailed to subscribers in the U.S. and 120 other countries. Boston's Monitor ("An International Daily Newspaper") has no truck with trivia, concentrates instead on solid, staff-written interpretative reporting that its editors expect will still be relevant days or weeks later. For this reason, the Monitor gets the ultimate tribute of the news profession: its subscribers include 4,000 editors and newspapers throughout the world, some of whom pay as much as $1,000 a year to have their copies airmailed (worldwide, first...
...horsepower and prices of outboards have risen in the past few years, sales have tapered off. But most of the manufacturers of outboard motors still expect a slight increase in sales above the 605,000 sold last year...
...Offered to suspend nuclear weapons tests as part of a world-wide agreement based upon a foolproof termination of "the now unrestrained production of nuclear weapons . . . Since our existing weapons stocks are doubtless larger than yours, we would expect to make a greater transfer to peaceful-purpose stocks...
...missile power equation, the offensive is so far ahead of the defensive that antiaircraft and anti-missile systems can hardly expect to achieve more than 25% effectiveness. The U.S. is nonetheless now developing 25 defensive missiles, with prime attention to the Air Force's area-defense Bomarc, a ramjet-powered interceptor that is designed to kill enemy aircraft 350 miles away and 60,000 ft. up. Boeing's Bomarc is just moving into full production. This week the Air Force will give Boeing a production-letter contract for about 100 Bomarcs and ground-support equipment. The Army...
...life on earth has haunted enough imaginations to produce scores of folk tales, dramas and novels. He now reappears in Pär Lagerkvist's latest book. Those who know the other works (Barabbas, The Eternal Smile) of Sweden's 1951 Nobel Prizewinner will find what they expect-psychological and mystical insights, told in nursery-plain prose and seeking to justify the ways...