Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise in stocks. The Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 6.04 points to within a point of the year's high of 498.56 before being nipped by profit-taking. As it stood, stocks wound up the week at 497.54, some 43 points higher than the low for the year. Main reason: a continuing chorus of cheery first-quarter earnings reports...
...mean by these obvious remarks to offer any key to Orwell's works, but rather to suggest that they need none. His main presupposition was one that most people make. He supposed things have a real, knowable order, and went on to suggest that the greater art of the world's ills come from attempts to disguise that order. The most transparent disguise was the slovenly language that he found practiced unconsciously by his contemporaries and deliberately in 1984's Newspeak. He did not thing of language as a natural growth, but as a tool whose careful use was incumbent...
Otherwise, the main problem confronting the team is that of taking enough shots at the opponents' goal. Even in the Tufts game the shot production was notably lax, as it has been all season...
...dislocated shoulder put Cotter out of action in the Princeton contest; he will not be ready to return at least until this Saturday's game against Dartmouth. His loss may well hamper the Crimson attack, since Cotter had been one of the main feeders for crease man Mike Shaw...
Moving on to the "The Proper Study of Mankind," he declared that "man is overwhelmed by all those who are studying him." In the study on man, Oppenheimer distinguished between two main branches of study, the scientific approach--through biology, chemistry, psychology, and psychiatry--and the historical approach...