Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck, and Michael Cullen, the first supermarketeer.) From Bags to Riches. The man whom McNair hails as the greatest of contemporary U.S. merchants is by turn profane and philosophical, charming and fiercely combative. Eugene Ferkauf is a boy from Brooklyn, and he does not pretend otherwise. Brooklyn is only a 15? subway ride and half a world away from Fifth Avenue...
...science lecture could be gotten through mimeographed notes. In physics we have to aim at coverage of the whole structure of knowledge, and the lecture system is probably not the best way to do this. The textbooks have been worked over from edition to edition and can pretend to a greater completeness...
...SCHWARTZ REPLIES: I regret the petulant language to which Mr. Rowsey refers, but I do not think its excision weakens my case. I argued that, for various reasons, the Trade Bill is unlikely to have any appreciable effect on this country's unemployment problem: and that to pretend it will is in effect to deny assistance to those whose needs deserve the government's first attention...
...what is most striking about the communique from Professors Hoffman and Kissinger is their rude refusal, within the local community of scholars, to argue soberly in behalf of their evident commitment to test resumpton. Instead of answering the protest, they pretend to explain it in the manner noted above. Prior to this letter, such rhetoric was the special property of Goldwater, Nixon, Buckley and Welch. Now it is introduced into the Harvard community in this defensive and fake "answer" to a protest against a government policy which the writers themselves admit is open to legitimate challenge...
...Theory. He ominously noted that, for the first time since 1942, the Dow-Jones average had dropped more than 50% of the difference between its latest high and its previous low (566.05 in 1960). This, he argued, meant that the bears had finally taken over. "I do not pretend to know what we are now heading into," wrote Russell, "but I am now unwilling to hold negotiable securities of any type...