Word: probe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faculty Bigwigs Probe...
...Unhappy, quarrelsome parents make unhappy, naughty children. ("Young perceptions invariably probe straight through to every aspect of character with the penetration of X-rays...
Recalling that Arnold's first big, nationwide investigation into living costs (housing) resulted in 99 indictments against 1,538 defendants, the Justice Department termed the foodstuffs probe "a logical successor . . . because next to rent food is the largest item of consumer expenditures." Placed in charge by Arnold was the same man who ran the housing investigation - able, publicity-shy young Corwin D. Edwards. As usual, Economist Edwards refused to talk about his job, just got down to work...
...upset and fearful for the fate of our nation and people that the only ultimatum I can foresee is destruction of all that took so many years to build up. We all want cold, clean facts-but must they all be so disheartening? Cannot you probe-dig in-and "dish us out" a few encouraging remarks...
Four Sons (20th Century-Fox) attempts to probe the psychology that makes fifth columns possible, by tracing the effects of Naziism on a Sudeten mother and three of her sons before & after Munich. It is not badness, but his own discipline and strength, that draws the second son (Alan Curtis) to the disciplined and brutal Nazis. It is not strength, but muddlement that makes the eldest son (Don Ameche), a loyal Czech, kill his Nazi brother. Their mother (Eugenie Leontovich) suffers, but she never quite understands what it is all about...