Word: growth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present wariness of pie-in-the-sky liberalism. 'It's the most dangerous thing in the world,' he says. 'That's what happened to Stevenson.' " And then the article goes on talking about Humphrey being a New Dealer as if my mental growth had stopped about 1936. That is sufficiently insulting, but I can take that since it is a matter of opinion. However, the quotation is a matter of outright distortion and I do object...
...journalistic pioneer, TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine. Later that year when Williams moved to Albany, TIME was unwilling to risk slowing deliveries to readers by printing outside New York City, and the association was suspended. In the years since, both Williams and TIME have grown, and a measure of the growth is shown in the size of fledgling TIME'S first print order: a modest 25,000. This week Williams started a press run of 250,000 copies of TIME to be distributed to New England and eastern New York alone (see map). Williams' contribution, ten times the number...
...German" in Thomas Mann's judgment, Knut Hamsun was a peasant's son who grew up in Norway's far north, wandered as a hobo through Illinois and the Dakotas of the '80s, and buried himself in a remote corner of Norway to write novels (Growth of the Soil, Pan, Hunger) of great depth and power. Then, old and full of honors, including the 1920 Nobel Prize, Knut Hamsun told his countrymen when the Nazis invaded Norway: "Throw away your rifles. The Germans are fighting for us, and now are crushing England's tyranny over...
Pointing out the "growth in dimensions" that the Director's job has undergone, Elliott commented that he is looking forward to the appointment of a new director with "fresh ideas and approaches" in the administration of the Summer School...
Chairman Martin pointed out that the index of industrial growth is a more significant indication of the economy's bustle than many other indicators, such as gross national product. It is a pure index of real production, does not include the inflationary rise in prices, which often makes the rise in other indexes seem greater than it actually is. Said Martin: "As the structure of the economy keeps changing, the job of combining measures of its many parts into a single index cannot be done without having to make major revisions every few years." With increasing use of electronic...