Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas, Li'l Darlin1 (book by John Whedon & Sam Moore; produced by Studio Productions, Inc. & Anthony Brady Farrell Productions) is suitably Texan in size and general good nature. But it is no less Texan in sprawl; it ranges over a lot. of flat country, strikes snags more often than oil, and displays no great sense of direction. Half satiric and half folksy, it is never quite sure whether it is stalking wild life or big shots, finally bags neither...
...Blunt Fact. The Catholics of England and Wales (2,528,200 in a population of 43,534,000) are organizing their forces to make each candidate in next spring's General Election publicly commit himself for or against their plan. Last week the Labor government made it a sharp issue: Minister of Education George Tomlinson.flatly, rejected the bishops' proposal, and issued a memorandum to Labor Party members explaining why. Questioning the accuracy of the bishops' ?60 million estimate of the Act's cost to Catholics, the memorandum asserted: "The Roman Catholic hierarchy have always aimed...
...afraid to expose himself to the fire power of experts in the various fields. He tells scientists that there is nothing wrong with their subject except that it has grown too big for its britches. "Science knows what is, it does not know what ought to be ... Speaking in general, science in our day claims more room within the totality of human life than it is entitled to. Instead of serving, it dominates; instead of subordinating itself, it wants to subordinate the whole of life; that is why it has, in part, dehumanizing effects ... It is not from science that...
...Army had the word straight from an old West Point superintendent now in Tokyo. Messaged General Douglas Mac-Arthur: "There is no substitute for victory." If West Point's tough, all-conquering football squad needed any further goad last week, it was supplied by pre-game gibes from the Navy cheering section. With President Harry Truman and 102,442 others watching in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, Annapolis banners flaunted some sore subjects...
...capacity this week. Soft-coal production climbed to 14 million tons the week ended Nov. 19, highest point since April 1948. Unemployment was dropping in the cities that had been hardest hit in the spring recession and the fall strikes. And the automakers were chestier than ever. General Motors predicted that it would make a record 2,750,000 cars and trucks this year, nearly half the industry's output, and promised to equal or top that...