Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must reluctantly, however, indicate one minor flaw-the historian surely meant to say, not Magna Charta, but Magna Chortle...
...York Times's Foreign Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger put together the story. In the summer of 1948, 700 Soviet biologists met in conference to discuss solemnly the theory of Lysenkovism. Geneticist T. D. Lysenko contended that "acquired characteristics"-those attributed to environment-can be inherited. This meant that Communist education could more or less create a new species of human being, and then transmit the features to future generations...
...consciously searching for the unknown." Four mornings a week Magritte stays home in his stuffy little apartment to paint. His technique is straightforward and exquisite; his results are oblique, funny, and sometimes forceful. Like Roman candles fired into the dark, his paintings are meant not to illuminate but to enhance the mystery of life...
Since the day it was founded 39 years ago, the left-of-center New Republic has lost money. But this never meant dire financial danger to the magazine. Started by the late Willard Straight and his wife Dorothy, who had inherited millions from her father William C. Whitney, the magazine could always rely on a trust fund which she set up. Last week Editor Michael Straight, 36, son of the founders, announced a radical change. The trustees, in "the interests of beneficiaries who are minors," will no longer put money into the New Republic (circ. 36,000). Hence forth...
...this mean more inflation? For the moment, it apparently meant some. Last week the new cost-of-living index (TIME, Nov. 6, 1950), embracing 300 items instead of the 225 in the old, actually showed a .2% drop. But the figures were six weeks old. A more sensitive index, that of the daily prices of 22 spot commodities, had risen 2.3% since Dwight Eisenhower's State of the Union speech announcing decontrols. These rises had not yet been reflected in retail prices, but would soon boost some costs since there was no sign of a slackening in demand...