Word: fathoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people, some chimneys and a gable. But always Kandinsky was primarily concerned with form: "It must be finally understood that for me form is but the means towards an end, and that I am occupied with the theory of form and give up so much because I want to fathom what is innermost in the form and make it clear, very clear for other people...
Misleading & Disrespectful. In the two years that the Earl of Arran has been writing for the tabloid News, his plebeian readers have discovered in him that favorite British combination-lordly eccentricity. Few subjects are too large, and none too small, to embroil the Earl. He cannot fathom the Common Market, but he can try: "The lady from Bexhill still bangs away at me about a mass importation of French courtesans. But I think there must be more to the Common Mar ket than that." "Electrified" by reading in a Sunday women's page that a daub of lipstick artfully...
WORRY ON DOLLAR EASING IN EUROPE, said the New York Times one morning last week. EUROPE'S CONFIDENCE IN DOLLAR CONTINUES FADING, countered the New York Herald Tribune the same day. These conflicting headlines reflect a situation that is frequently hard to fathom, but that matters more and more. At a time when the U.S. has to worry about its own place in international economic competition, the prejudices of informed opinion abroad are a factor to reckon with. Last week TIME correspondents took their own survey of top businessmen and economists from London to Tokyo...
Caouette took full advantage of a growing wave of French Canadian separatist sentiment and disillusionment with the Liberal and Conservative parties, both dominated by English-speaking Canada. "You don't have to understand Social Credit to vote for it," he told those who failed to fathom the complexities of Social Credit...
Ignoring the gibes of colleagues. Geneticist Glen McBride of Australia's University of Queensland perched for two years on the fences of pigpens. By listening to the oinks and grunts of teen-age swine (8 to 16-week age bracket), he hoped to fathom their social order, to learn how to make them more comfortable and faster growing. He failed, mostly because the young swine were made into hams and bacon before he got to know them well...