Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty nine of the fifty questioned this week listed gifts that any woman can buy almost anywhere. Argyle seeks, preferably hand-made and in colors not too blinding, got a sweeping majority of votes. Albums of classical or jazz records finished second. Books were third, equipment useful in pursuit of sport or hobby--tees for the golfer, flash bulbs for the photographer same next, and a dozen voters were ready to settle for a picture of the girl. The fiftieth man held for the woman herself...
...newsmen and others who cover the Communist front. Under the Communist Party, it listed seven "affiliate" committees, among them the Labor Research Association Inc. and the Committee to Aid the Fighting South. It listed several disbanded outfits, but it did not include several large organizations whose leaders' pursuit of the Communist line has made them suspect in Congress and elsewhere.* Now labeled by the Government as "Communist or subversive" were these busy and noisy organizations...
Maurice Goldblatt is a brash, unpolished little man who dedicated himself at an early age to a relentless pursuit of wealth. He made a pile. In the process, he became one of the ranking merchant princes of Chicago's famed State Street...
...cinemagnates earnestly repeated that "nothing subversive or un-American has appeared on the screen" (there was no proof that any ever had). In the pursuit of their new policy, they acknowledged that "there is the danger of hurting innocent people ... the risk of creating an atmosphere of fear...
Most felt that although the pursuit and acquisition of knowledge are noble and desirable endeavors, to say the least, they nevertheless could be just as easily fulfilled with the exits uncluttered by locked doors. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that safety and education were not incompatible...