Search Details

Word: marginalls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

It was in 1954 that Nikita Khrushchev launched his grandiose "virgin lands" gamble. Part of the plan was to plow up 32 million acres of marginal land in Kazakhstan, and settle it with Communist "pioneers," who were to plant and produce huge quantities of desperately needed grain within two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Who's in Charge Here? | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

On the Roof. Part of the strain, of course, is financial; the checkbook never seems ready for the unexpected demands. The well-in-advance, all-too-legibly-signed Christmas card "from your garbage man" and "your mailman," the armies of elevator operators and invisible attendants that materialize for apartment dwellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Blight Before Christmas | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Lodge is not so pessimistic: he travels sixteen hours a day to close the Kennedy lead. The Lodge-Hughes debates are part of Lodge's simple strategy of achieving maximum exposure. Anyone in Harvard Square can tell you that Lodge can only lose (and has) in open debate with the...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: George Cabot Lodge | 10/16/1962 | See Source »

Its achievements were marginal, when measured against the programs offered for its consideration. So much so that it is tempting to accept the President's recent political invective as a reasonable, objective appraisal of its performance. In his recent barnstorming tour of the East, for example, he attacked Senator Capehart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wait Till Next Year | 10/15/1962 | See Source »

Manhattan's 7,001-member Harvard Club is still operating in the black (1961 expenses were $1,759,443, revenues $1,764,570), but the 6,340-member Yale Club is not. The 3,500 members of the Princeton Club will move in January into a brand-new $4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Cold Wind in Clubland | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

Previous | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | 259 | 260 | Next