Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school frankly admits to eclecticism. Borrowing is only a sensible way to achieve quality. "After all, we would be foolish not to try to learn from the experience of older, larger schools," Sachar believes...
...after that of the Nazis. All failed, and Ibáñez finally decided, in 1952, to try the ballot box. His lonely, military stiffness, his speeches barked out like parade-ground orders, and his earnest promises to cut the cost of living, appealed to Chileans tired of the older parties. He won easily...
...Certain Smile is another tale of extramarital fun and games, this time between a teen-ager named Dominique, who leaves her schoolboy beau, and his suave, older, married uncle. Smile in its first month had four printings of a whopping 250,000 copies, already seems assured of outstripping even the success of Tristesse. Wags are suggesting that the certain smile shines from the face of Rene Julliard, her publisher. It will be brought out in the U.S. in August by Dutton...
...selfless individual who just wants to be around trains and, if possible, to help them out when they get in trouble. Railroad enthusiasts are much the most genial when they grow older, at the time, as one writer describes them, "they shake down into fine people, jolly and philosophical." Youthful enthusiasts sometimes "ride their hobby too hard, and show off their knowledge of engine parts and other expert insignia with which they hide the hot confusion that is within them...
Room for All. By producing a steady stream of such ideas, old-line packaging companies have kept their sales rising. Says an A.M.A. official: "Packaging is a field which has expanded so greatly that new materials have created their own markets instead of shutting out older stand-bys." Every segment of the industry is growing. The value of transparent films produced last year is estimated at $225 million, up from $53 million in 1941. Estimated 1955 output of folding boxboard: 2,750,000 tons, up from...