Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recently I went to the U.S. for medical treatment. It was there that I first made my acquaintance with your excellent magazine. While I was there in hospital I read it regularly every week, and when I left, I made it a point to subscribe to your International Edition so that I could enjoy TIME here in India...
Holt hastened to point out, however, that nearly every student who came to his Weld Hall office had been offered some kind of job. Half of them, however, vacillated about the opportunities extended them for reasons of salary or hope of a more pleasant job, Holt explained...
Peter Maurin (rhymes with bore in) studied because he wanted to teach, for he regarded teaching as his spiritual vocation. In city streets, in buses and in quiet parks he was always beginning discussions with strangers. These conversations were not casual. Each was carefully designed to "make a point," as he liked to say; they were dialogues carefully distilled from the works of such writers as Peter Kropotkin, G. K. Chesterton and Eric Gill...
...even more impressive when the short interest was measured in relation to the total volume of trading. In this ratio there were two previous peaks-in 1938 and 1948-as high as last week's. The 1938 bearish peak came just before the market shot up 52 points; the 1948 peak came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co. to observe last week that the new bearish peak merely means that "Johnny Come Lately is on the bear side [and] it has not paid big dividends to follow...
Most of the contemporary masters have one point in common: their stories are laid in the future. Interplanetary flights are routine, as are the "space operas" in which heroes chase villains through dazzling stretches of the galaxy. One of the oldest forms of science fiction is the "Utopia story," in which a coherent history of an ideal world is sketched out. A popular form is the "prophecy story," in which the consequences of man's inventive ingenuity in, say, rocket ships, are thought out. Subject matter ranges from the zoology of other planets to apocalyptic portraits of the world...