Word: seene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world had seen Russians smile before. Was there greater cause for hope this time? It was certainly wrong to assume, as some observers in the West did, that talking to the Russians was useless. It was also wrong to think that, by talking to the Russians, a permanent settlement between the democracies and communism could be achieved. But between these two extremes there was plenty of room for a settlement of specific issues. For this the world could, and did, have hopes...
...years had Wall Street seen so many bears. They were counted officially last week in the New York Stock Exchange's monthly report on the "short interest"-i.e., the number of shares sold short against an anticipated decline. By mid-May, the short interest had risen 130,058 in a month to 1,628,551 shares, the biggest total since the bank panic of February 1933, when it reached a peak of 1,894,632 shares (but far below the record high...
...burned out in the 1906 earthquake. "A.L." decided that Western art wasn't everything: he sent buyers to Japan and China to collect Oriental art. Gump's gradually built up one of the finest collections of rugs, porcelains, silks, bronzes and jades that Western eyes had ever seen, and A.L., who was all but blind, learned to judge it all expertly by touch...
Finally the board agreed to let the public look at the result, with two conditions: 1) a patriotic foreword must explain that the movie depicts conditions in the U.S., not Britain; 2) children under 16 must be barred from the audience. (Normally, films classified for adults may be seen by children if accompanied by grown...
...reader who reads science fiction dispassionately is likely to be struck by how closely the human imagination is tied to reality, even when it deliberately sets out to violate it. Stanley Weinbaum's loonies and slinkers have been seen before. The shapes may be different, but his dream-beasts come startlingly close to what the human race has been running across, for a good many years, in its childish nightmares...