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...movie box office has not yet completely lost the land-office look it had during wartime. But moviemen suspect that the boom is over. How soon a real slump will come is something that fretful Hollywood has begun to fret about...
...fret overmuch at the "brekekekex koäx" of ecclesiastical discussion. What if the men who make religion their business do sound much like the men whose business is politics? They are both debating problems which have beset mankind for a long time. The U.N. diplomats are struggling with the problem of nationalism, which in our culture is only a few centuries old, and it may be solved in a few more centuries. The problems which beset religion are much older, and will be much longer in the solving...
Ammonium nitrate's outwardly peaceful molecule perpetually strains with suppressed desires. The oxygen and hydrogen atoms are not combined with each other, as their natures prompt them to be. They fret in frustrated juxtaposition, kept from an explosive embrace by a frangible barrier of chemical propriety...
Reflectively the old man scrapes a yellow tooth with a black fingernail. "Comrade," says he, "a very old man shouldn't fret over things bygone or things to come. I only want to do business. Then all will be right...
...large-scale problem. A project of the same type at Harvard could not be completed in time to ease the September squeeze. Now University Hall must scramble to avert tragedy with all the means it can beg, brow or steal over the summer. It is also too late to fret over the eyesore quality of a colony of Quonset huts. The alternative picture of a family of three living in one room is not pretty either...