Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Bretton Woods economic conference established the World Monetary Fund, the French could rate their currency to flit their own needs, and the result in a period of economic distress was shown in the frequent currency wars after World War I, making a mockery of stability...
...Pause That Cools. Usually, when the convention deadlocked, it adjourned for a few days. Indeed, the frequent adjournments seem in retrospect to have revealed almost as much statesmanship as the measures themselves. They cooled tempers, or they permitted vaguely formed ideas to crystallize. Moreover, the late arrivals among the delegates were new reinforcements for one group or another. They were like substitutes sent in at a critical moment in a football game, and in many respects they were, like Roger Sherman of Connecticut, more effective than the members of the first team...
...famous Joshua Hendy Iron Works; George P. Baker, professor of transportation at Harvard Business School, director in 1945 of the State Department's Office of Transport and Communications Policy and chief spokesman for the postwar Air Coordinating Committee; Arthur Whiteside, president of Dun & Bradstreet and frequent adviser to Government agencies; Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, energetic publisher of the Denver Post, onetime head of the domestic branch...
Last week he had more than 600 returns. Most frequent error: wrong names & addresses. Most frequent complaint: male readers wanted to be called "Mr." in stories. Most notable conclusion: readers liked slanted stories as long as they were slanted their...
...fatale-looking femme since Garbo. But it remains an open question whether she can act. Hitchcock, keeping her nearly motionless, plies her with one slow, cold, lambent close-up after another. Some of these close-ups function forcefully in the storytelling; but too many are as nonfunctional as her frequent changes of hairdo. It looks as if Hitchcock, one of the smartest directors of women in the business, had been required, in Valli's case, merely to glamorize a new Selznick star. Newcomer Jourdan does respectably by his limited chance-which is to look handsome and intense...