Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calcutta's filthy, fly-infested streets it is often hard to tell the living from the dead. Thousands of the area's 4,500,000 people, hungry and unemployed, huddle day and night in dank back alleys or sprawl on the sidewalks splotched red with betel spittle. The dead sometimes lie where they are for days before police vans cart them off to the burning ghats. The dying, picked up and carried from hospital to crowded hospital, used to be dumped back on the streets; there was simply no room for a hopeless case...
Investors in the New York stock market have long been hampered by the lack of an accurate barometer to tell how the majority of stocks are doing. Present published daily averages are computed on the basis of a small, hopefully representative sampling of stocks that often does not show the action of the market as a whole (TIME, Jan. 14). This week Standard & Poor's announced a weighted index of 500 stocks representing 90% of the total value of all stocks listed on the exchange. Said Standard & Poor's President Charles A. Schmutz: "It will be the most...
...current folklore of U.S. business the wife of an executive is often represented as being equally important to her husband's career as his own abilities. Some U.S. corporations have taken to interviewing wives before hiring or promoting executives, others regularly appraise executive wives by visits to the home or at corporate parties. A few even provide seminars and conferences for wives in an attempt to fashion the ideal executive helpmate. All this has prompted a string of articles, fiction and movies depicting the ideal "Mrs. Executive" -a woman who furthers her husband's career by molding herself...
...hard words for the U.S. from refugees-the long delay before moral support came in President Eisenhower's message, the now familiar charges of inflammatory U.S. propaganda that could not be backed by real help. But these are minor matters compared to the ferocity of the Red terror. Often Reporter Michener himself appears amazed by the enormity of it, and to vouch for his accuracy he finds it necessary to declare solemnly that he has never fallen for phony horror stories-or for Red-baiting. To buttress the point, he cites his distaste for Wood-row Wilson...
...recent proposal made at the annual Cedar Hill Conference to provide a Student Union for Radcliffe meets with our highest approval. In a world that often appears to us full of self-concern, we are glad to see an act of almost pure altruism...