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Word: grosse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood to peddle his audience-research act to producers, Philadelphia-based Pollster Albert E. Sindlinger trotted out some tempting figures to convince the moviemen that they actually have something to sell. Feature films, said Sindlinger, will soon be classified by their expected box-office gross, and will fall into three groups: 1) under $2,000,000, 2) from $5,000,000 to $6,000,000, 3) from $9,000,000 up. Although the total number of movie theaters in the U.S. has dropped from 18,719 to 11,200 in the past two years, Sindlinger insisted that "blockbusters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOX OFFICE: Something to Sell | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...surprise of no one at the university, New Jersey's Rutgers last week named Dr. Mason Welch Gross, 47, best known for his off-campus success as a TV answer man, as its new president. Big (6 ft. 3 in., 197 Ibs.), mild, mustached Philosophy Teacher Gross joined the 14,000-student university in 1946, has served as provost, vice president and acting president since the school's former head, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, resigned last August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Appointment of the Week | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...years Philosopher Gross was the house expert against whom contestants on the now defunct TV show, Two for the Money, gambled with their answers. Gross decided onstage, and without a chance to crib from reference books, whether the answers were correct, seldom had to back down. An extramural job that comes closer to the complexity of his new one: his chairmanship, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Appointment of the Week | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Also unearthed was a "Venus" stone carving, which may have been related to some sort of "fertility cult." Unlike most "Venuses" of this type, which are usually of very obese women with gross stomachs and breasts, this specimen is more slender and graceful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movius to Study Palaeolithic Life, Prehistoric Man | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Gross tin income, from which comes two-thirds of the country's export revenue, fell from $93 million in 1951 to $57 million in 1957, and is still dropping. The world's worst case of inflation toppled the boliviano from 200 to the dollar in 1952 to 11,900 in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Chaos in the Clouds | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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