Word: happiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reviewer is tempted to say that here is some of the best of Benchley-ana, if he were not afraid that the master would descend from among the happier angels, and write off a little piece called "--Anas, Their Use and Function...
...concessions of Great Britain were more important to France," McKay continued, "than the armed strength of the United States." Although the French respect the United States' aid to Europe, McKay pointed out, they are much happier with British support. "There is a prevalent fear in France," he said, "that the McCarthys and other American isolationists might force the United States to pull out of Europe at some time...
Last week President Ramon Magsaysay reinstated Occupation Day under a new and happier name: Philippine-American Day. Among those conspicuously observing it together: Admiral Raymond Spruance, the U.S. Ambassador, and the aging rebel chieftain Aguinaldo, who gave U.S. forces such trouble half a century...
Enterprise or Ideas. "Philanthropy is an American habit," he wrote, "and the modern foundation is an American invention." Its aims: "To make human beings healthier, happier, wiser, more conscious of the rich possibilities of human existence and more capable of realizing them . . ." It is true that a foundation must exercise careful judgment in selecting the studies and scholars it wishes to support. But having done so, it must treat the doctrine of the free enterprise of ideas as inviolate. In its 43 years, Dollard continued, the Carnegie Corporation (which has spent $253 million to improve public libraries, educational standards...
Clearly, he has kept working. Behind the Indians' fine pitching staff, Wynn, Lemon, Garcia, Feller & Co., he almost always turns in a creditable performance. At the plate he is always a threat. In all pennant-hungry Cleveland, there is no happier sight than Al Rosen, firmly established in the batter's box. The ball steams in, his hips swing in a fast little shake, his left leg lifts for a quick thrust forward, and the big bat whips around. It has connected often enough to make him the league's second-ranking batsman, after his teammate Bobby...