Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should like to reply to the letter of Mr. Bern Dibner in the Oct. 27 issue. If he believes that the best way to destroy Communism is to keep it under cover, then I believe that he is thinking dangerously. The mere fact that TIME features men like Gromyko and Vishinsky on its covers should be the first step in a great deal of publicity for Communism. For if we are to fight those "who are pledged to destroy us," we will have to do it in the open. The naivete of the American public lies not in our publicity...
...interested in what she thought was a 21-carat diamond ring. Moe and his brother Gail, who worked for him, wanted $40,000 for the rock. Mrs. Genis demurred. Anyway, the Reingolds only had the ring on consignment. So when Mrs. Genis bought it through another jeweler for a mere $19,000 (it was a mere 18 carats, too, she discovered), Moe was miffed and said so. "Mr. Moe Reingold," the lady later recalled explicitly, "called me a son of a bitch and said I would never get away with it if it was the last thing...
Weather Change. Since the long, deadlocked afternoons at Moscow's Aero Club last spring, the U.S. had assumed the initiative. The Marshall Plan was one expression of it. Its mere promise was already altering political weather forecasts for Western Europe. For their part, the Russians and their friends, like the Comrades who gathered for a somewhat dampening rally in Milan last week (see cut), were putting up umbrellas...
...rest of men in nationality, speech or customs; they do not live in states of their own, nor do they use a special language, nor adopt a peculiar way of life. Their teaching is not the kind of thing that could be discovered by the wisdom or reflection of mere active-minded men; in deed, they are not outstanding in human learning as others are. . . . They live, each in his native land - but as though they were not really at home there. They share in all duties like citizens and suffer all hardships like strangers. Every foreign land...
...three; and the Bruins beat Yale by six points, the Elis losing in turn to Wisconsin by a nine-point margin. Wisconsin won over Iowa by 32 points, and, after adding all these scores together, Sly figures Harvard to be 39 points in front of Iowa by a mere 21, the Crimson obviously is eighteen points better than Leahy's Fighting Irish...