Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the decisive breakaway of 1948, Erhard has proclaimed his Soziale Marktwirtschaft with all the incantatory efficacy of a prophet proved in 53 million pocketbooks. Strange as it may seem to Americans, the fact that he is a professor further enhances his great prestige, for in the elaborately graded system...
As it was laid out in Manhattan, the wristwatch advertisement showed a model, one Pete Jarman, in a false beard impersonating an antarctic explorer who had found the watch just the thing for polar expeditions. It was good, hard-selling copy of the Hathaway eyepatch school. And sell it did...
The European country that has done the best job of holding down inflation is Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS), whose cost-of-living index rose only 6% since 1953, while production increased 60%. With far fewer economic strains to contend with, Switzerland has held to a 5% rise. Britain has had...
Because the Catalan churches lay in a backward area, they remained almost unchanged through the centuries, were not rebuilt in later styles. In recent decades most of the frescoes and painted wood altar fronts have been moved into museums at Vich and Barcelona to stop further deterioration and to permit...
What the excavators found was a looted grave, so despoiled (probably by the Saracens in 846) that much of it was a featureless hole. There was no trace of the bronze casket in which tradition said Constantine had placed St. Peter's relics. All that remained, buried at the...