Word: saying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than the slightly twisted nose in his handsome, square-jawed face. Sometimes he worries that the mean streak he works up for his profession of violence will affect him permanently. "You've got to watch that you don't take it off the field with you," says Sam. "You get guys who say, 'Oh, you're a big football player. Well, I don't think you're so tough.' You feel like poppin' them...
...blue jeans and I'll remember you at Christmastime.' Is this not payola? Have there not been accusations of this sort in the garment industry, in any number of international unions? Payola in one form or another is a part of American business ... I say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone...
...plywood factory spreading over 14½ acres of onetime swampland; McCulloch Motors Corp. of Los Angeles announced that it would start making outboard motors in Australia; the Sydney Stock Exchange noted that share prices had risen to a level 33% higher than a year ago; and the government could say that unemployment was at 49,077, or barely 1% of the 4,000,000-man labor force...
...Beers continued work on the project, G.E. was taking approximately 10% of the U.S. industrial-diamond market away from De Beers' natural industrial stones, indicated that it could supply half of the U.S. market for industrial diamonds. Synthetics are not only priced lower than natural stones, but manufacturers say that in many cases they are substantially more efficient...
...left Cambridge in 1894, a philosopher and high Wrangler (the university's term for top mathematicians), he was close to what his father had wanted him to be, and since then, Rationalist Russell has frequently attacked religion. All the more notable is his conclusion that science can never say what ought to be done. In this view, the reader can find a reproach to the hubris of today's vociferous army of scientist-prophets, notably the late Albert Einstein in the U.S., J.B.S. Haldane in Britain, Joliot-Curie in France...