Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Houston. This does not mean that he is popular; many of his fellow citizens grudgingly envy him his wealth and audacity. As many more deprecate him, and point out, correctly, that he is hardly typical of the Texas millionaire (see box). Nevertheless, Glenn McCarthy is as peculiarly a product of Texas as the famed San Jacinto monument; the Lone Star State is one of the few places left in the world where millionaires hatch seasonally, like May flies...
...sober fact, is a kind of hydrogen bomb that generates its life-giving energy by "fusing" hydrogen into helium. Man's new bombs will not use exactly the same reactions, but they will use similar ones yielding the same end product. When the first of them explodes, a little bit of the searing sun will have hit the earth...
...claims of antihistamine drugs were also a problem (see MEDICINE). In the New York Herald Tribune, readers of the ad columns were told to "Stop Colds Among Your Employees," but in the stricter Times, the same product promised merely to "Help Reduce Absenteeism Due to Colds." In Chicago, the old question of race discrimination in advertising was an issue. Three of the four Chicago dailies still allow "For Colored" in rent ads, to indicate that the advertised apartments or houses are located in the Negro sections of town. The Chicago Tribune, responding to requests, has just banned the race...
Saeki reported his observation to top astronomers in Tokyo, who hold him in high regard. It was no ordinary Martian cloud, he said, but must be the product of a "terrific explosion." He added that he was not certain that the explosion could be of volcanic origin...
Even The Third Man's flaws are largely the product of its brilliance. To build atmosphere, Reed has filmed much of the picture with the camera slightly askew; after a while, the angle calls too much attention to itself. He has a way of emptying the streets at his convenience and peopling them suddenly when it suits him., And toward the end, he stages a chase through the city's sewers which, for all its self-sustaining excitement, comes after the story's major suspense has been resolved. But these are minor faults in the work...