Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President was emphatic on one point: allowing for "minor detours and bumps in the road ahead . . . economic collapse and stagnation such as started in 1929 ... need not happen again, and must not happen again." The best way to avoid them, everybody agreed, is to keep purchasing power up. The President said, significantly, that this should be done only rarely by raising wages, mostly by cutting prices. He set no precise figure for maximum employment, hoped to maintain the current peak of 58 million. Then, with the nation's productive plant going full blast, the U.S. national output should...
Compared with the Senate, the House was little more than a minor sideshow. Nobody bothered to watch it organize, except members' families and a few sightseers turned away from the big top at the other end of the Capitol. For the first time, the routine was televised (see RADIO); Harry Truman saw it on a ten-inch screen beside his desk...
Last week, apparently full of confidence in the discipline of his membership, Meade was in no mood to compromise on the minor points in dispute. Cried he: "[We] will fight to the bitter...
Faithful to the novel, the film tells the simple story of a small boy named Jody Baxter and his pet fawn. After suffering a few heartaches, the boy grows older. The plot's minor themes examine the young'-un's sweet-spirited, poverty-ridden parents, who scratch a hard living from the none-too-good earth of Florida's scrub country...
...good. This reviewer would have enjoyed the picture a bit more if it had featured Russell's psychological, rather than mechanical, triumph over his artificial hands, and if, in another scene, it had met a bigot's intolerance with an argument instead of a punch. But these are are minor imperfections in a picture whose freshness and sincerity are as warmly satisfying as a cigarette after breakfast...