Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franklin Roosevelt? Or Emily Post? Or Freud? As for my friends and me, words failed us. Neither our education nor our experience nor our principles had prepared us for this encounter. Ours is, indeed, a rich and wonderful country-glamorous beyond belief. A bum can no longer suffer mere misfortune; he must be "rolled by a beautiful call girl." And he is not friendless. Far from it; he has only to appear in Wall Street to have his credit and identity restored. I returned to my office filled with awe. What dreams we Americans can dream ! Who has bums like...
...General Christian de Castries. JEAN LEBRUN Grand Mere...
...effects of recording upperclass attendance are not limited to mere nuisance; the practice is also a waste of money for monitoring and extra bookkeeping charges. This expensive nuisance could be avoided by separating freshmen into special sections of the lecture halls for attendance purposes. Although such a practice might sound like the "beanie" approach at other colleges, the very presence of a rollcall already indicates to the freshman his special status...
...styling, grown fat and heavy (one model was inelegantly nicknamed the "pregnant Buick," the "bedpan Buick" and the "bathtub Buick"). When Depression struck, it hit Buick square in its middle-age spread, and Buick's share of the auto market dropped from more than 8% to 2.9%, a mere 43,809 cars. G.M. directors talked darkly of dropping Buick from the company, but Executive Vice President William Knudsen, the Great Dane, took another view. He aimed to "get Buick off relief," and thought the man to do it was Red Curtice. Other G.M. brasshats were skeptical, since Curtice...
...written for big-circulation magazines, and even the better tales are apt to swerve from the winding lanes of art to the happy-ending highways of commerce. The best of the lot, Merry Christmas, All, starts as a rasping Yuletide battle of the sexes and ends as a mere tempest in a toddy. Marquand tells just about all that one needs to know about Hawaii and its Regular Army post (Lunch at Honolulu, The End Game) or Harvard (Commencement, June 11, 1953) or Mongolia (Where Are You, Prince?). In these and other pieces the ceiling of insight is sometimes...