Word: ness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, March 15, 1948). It was the same policy that E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, grandfather of Ed and Jim, had used to build his chains. Townes had boosted circulation to 47,077; by last week it had slumped back to 40,500, and local advertisers were throwing their busi ness to the rival News-Tribune, the city's only other daily (circ...
...mother may, if she likes, watch the process in a mirror; she is always told just what is going on, just what will happen next, and is assured that it is all normal. One patient, who later had a baby while unconscious, wrote regretfully: "When I regained conscious ness and was told that I had a son, I remember feeling cheated, having to be informed just as if I hadn't been present ... I couldn't help looking at my son for a week or so afterward and feeling as if I'd won a Packard...
...Winnipeg last week, the University of Manitoba's Chester Duncan, lecturer in English, told the Winnipeg Poetry Society: "Our well-known Canadian laconicism is not always concealed wisdom, but a kind of dumbness, a frustration, a between-ness. We are continually on the verge of something but we don't quite get there. We haven't discovered what we are or where we're going and therefore we haven't much...
...than hot air. While Congressmen investigate and Speaker Martin announces that there is no danger of starvation, U.S. business counts its dollars, the termites of Fascism and Communism eat into the crumbling remains of European freedom. The price we may have to pay for our sloth and half-hearted ness will make the billions spent in the last war look like the proceeds of a piggy-bank raid...
Pancakes. But most sensible people were inclined to laugh it all off. Scientists and aviation officials, to whom the mystified U.S. turned for an explanation, were sure that the whole thing was nothing more than "mass hysteria." Englishmen began to compare the "flying saucers" to Scotland's Loch Ness monster...