Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frank qualms: "I didn't know I was competent for it." But he plans to do what he does best: woo plenty of new talent (including idea men), and sign up the most promising to long-term contracts. He believes that TV was not meant to be a mere exhibitor of old movies. Says Programmer Sacks: "Our job is creating. If you don't create, you might as well close shop...
Taproots. But every artist has to live somewhere, and each must face the problem of how to sink taproots in one locality, while at the same time raising his painting to a level that transcends mere reportage. Nowhere is the problem more difficult than under the empty vault of the great U.S. Southwest, with its endless horizons, dwarfing mountains and picturesque hangovers from the wild and woolly past. One of the new Southwest artists to face, and largely solve, this problem is Otis Dozier, 52, currently being hailed with a retrospective one-man show at the Dallas Museum of Fine...
...billion cu. ft. of gas, worth about $500,000. But since the drillers had no customer for the gas, banks refused to lend money to drill the other two wells. Lone Star Gas, which also had gas wells in Wise County, offered to buy the well for a mere $15,000, which Jackson refused. Discouraged, he went back to his consulting work as a geologist...
Hurley's fine job of holding down Jordan to a mere two field goals was typical of the fine defensive play the Crimson has thus far shown. In three contests, opponents have scored an average of less than 47 points per game, to put the varsity well up among the defensive leaders in the nation...
...opener against Wesleyan, Coach Floyd Wilson's men threw a blanket defense around the Cardinals, limiting them to a mere 37 points. This gave Harvard the temporary first-week defensive lead in the country. In both contests the Crimson's height and rebounding have been encouraging, and for occasional moments the shooting has been satisfactory. If these three factors jell, the varsity could give everyone trouble...