Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police lines quickly tightened around Annev buildings after the "incident" to curb further disturbances. An hour later the law was reported to have flushed another undergraduate hurling rocks at a Whitman Hall upper window.
And the crown was jolted further askew by Hearstling Westbrook Pegler, who dug up more ancient scandal. It was common knowledge that Rocky was a reform-school graduate, but his defenders argued that Rocky had gone right since then, and why pick on the kid? Pegler said he was later...
The Gallup methods are as highfalutin as the language. A radio star's E.Q. is figured by equating the percentage of people who confess to having heard him (Gallup calls it "public familiarity") against the response he gets ("audience enthusiasm"). Unlike Hooper, who uses the telephone, Gallup will rely...
So Wallace decided to slash the price, make up the difference by taking ads. This was tried in a Spanish-language edition for Latin America in December 1940. It sold so well (it now guarantees 1,000,000 circulation) that the Digest has followed it with 13 other editions* in...
China, Key to Victory. All the best Russian forces could then be directed toward the Far East, where the definitive struggle would begin, in China. The Soviet Union would by then have at least 300 divisions available, further reinforced by the Chinese Communist armies. The war in Asia could be...