Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What causes Russians most discomfort is housing," according to Bergson. The average city-dweller has a living space of only six square meters. Here, too, however, progress is being made. "On the way to Moscow's Vnukova airport," Bergson reports, "I saw more housing than I've ever seen in my life...
What is the meaning of Jesus' well-known words about children and the King dom of Heaven? In a cryptic "saying," the Gospel of Thomas seems to suggest that it has something to do with psychological unity: Jesus saw children who were being suckled. He said to his disciples: These children who are being suckled are like those who enter the Kingdom. They said to Him: Shall we then, being children, enter the Kingdom? Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner...
...ground, and in the second half, he pulled up the Air Force with him. A daring fourth-down pass put the Air Force on the Army 15. Two plays later, he so artfully faked a hand-off up the middle that the converging Army defense never saw Halfback Mike Quinlan circling left end until it was too late...
...decided boost in interest rates since June. Even though the prime rate on business loans has been raised to 5%, most banks said that they were keeping installment rates at about the same levels as early in the year. The Chase Manhattan Bank, in its bimonthly letter, also saw no danger in the increase in installment loans. Although the rate of installment credit is growing faster than in 1955, said the Chase Bank, consumer income is now larger. Despite its dollar increase, the rise in installment credit equals only 1.9% of income after taxes, slightly less than the rise...
...Joyce's matchless command of the English language and his finger on the tragicomic pulse of human life. If that life sometimes seemed tinged with an indefinable futility, it was because Joyce tried to construct a universe without God. In such a universe, superstition cast a spell. He saw coincidences as magic omens and tried to have all his books published on his birthday (Feb. 2). He wore a special ring to ward off blindness. He carried a picture of the 17th century Due de Joyeux (no kin) in his wallet and told people that Joyce, i.e., joy, meant...