Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For fully half its length, the Overture builds and rebuilds tocrashingly percussioned climaxes followed by aimless twitterings of clarinets, culminates in the boom of a cannon. ("If the nature of the coda seems cursory . . . one has to remember that Arnold always stops when he has nothing further to say.")
Further compounding the confusion, high-spending consumers still hold a traditional moral attitude toward saving as a virtue and borrowing as an evil. That attitude, they think, is exactly the one held by bankers. Since people feel guilty about personal borrowing, they believe that the "typical" moralistic banker is likely...
The long-awaited report which appeared last month did prove to be a "shocker"--as Commission members had predicted--more on account of the style in which it was written than of any unexpected disclosures. In it the majority of the members condemned the growing state of lawlessness as "pernicious...
But Ephraim Littlefield was not unwilling to expend the effort, for he was thorough and persistent, and besides, a little suspicious of the strange things that had been going on all week. His suspicions were further aroused when, that afternoon, Webster offered to buy him a Thanksgiving turkey. "It was...
However, by the tradition of American criminal law, Kimball pointed out, "a man is innocent until proven guilty." Further more, he added, "the evidence that Oppenheimer is a Communist is practically nil."