Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chapple's contraption measure the rate of "interaction" between two people, but can't recent the content of their remarks the way Bales...
...first production there was "Troilus and Cressida," one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays and one that has tempted few producers because of its intensely rigid poetry, its bitter theme, and its lack of histrionic possibilities. (It might be pointed out here that Shakespeare is rarely given a first-rate showing on Broadway until some actor promotes it as a vehicle for his own glorification. Shakespeare for itself, no). The Workshop did for "Troilus and Cressida" what museum workers have done for old masters; they scraped away the centuries' accumulated alterations, "improvements," and dust; they restored it to its natural...
Some of the phenomena have not been fully explained, and reports still come in at the rate of about twelve a month; but the National Military Establishment is not worried. Group suggestibility and "vertigo" and the difficulty of judging the speed and distance of an airborne object give plenty of material for the human imagination to work on. In the case of flying saucers, it appears to have worked hard. Since no single bolt or rivet of a mysterious aircraft has yet been found, there is no reason to believe that either Russians or Martians have been tearing...
...they were ten years ago when the picture was first released. Oldsters over ten who have seen it once will want to see it again.Youngsters old enough not to be frightened out of their wits by the Wicked Witch (Margaret Hamilton) will have the thrill of some first-rate make-believe ("We're off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard...
...million mark; The Case of the Lucky Legs alone has hit the incredible figure, for a detective story, of 2,000,000. In all editions, hard and paper cover, Gardner's books have sold more than 37 million copies,* are now moving over the counters at the rate of six or seven million copies a year in the U.S. and Canada alone...