Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government, with or without advice, with good judgment or bad, is bound to be the most potent single factor in making or breaking the U.S. economy. Its tax methods and spending alone (especially if the postwar budget stays on the $25 billion plateau which Harry Truman has suggested) will shape the whole course of U.S. business and society...
Protestants from many lands gathered in Geneva last week for what was scheduled to be an international gesture of Christian unity. It turned out to be considerably more. Without any advance headlines, without adequate press facilities, hundreds of clerics staked out a program to change and improve the shape of the world...
From the mists of Washington indecision, the shape and scope of a defense mechanism to serve the nation began to emerge. The shape was still blurred at the edges, but the size of the projected machine was unmistakable and staggering in its vastness. It would make the U.S. a nation under arms, with more men watching the ramparts than in the perilous days...
Died. Carl Snyder, 76, economist and statistician whose free-enterprising economics helped shape Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign policy, but whose statistics went awry (by the "calculus of probability" he predicted a Willkie victory) ; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
Moholy-Nagy went on to international fame as a typographer and set designer. He printed everything in lower case, because he thought capital letters wasted time and effort. In England he designed futuristic architectural sets for the movie of H. G. Wells's The Shape of Things to Come. In the machine-minded U.S., he burgeoned as an industrial designer. Among his designs: "air" curtains which send jets of air from the ceiling to keep out drafts; wrap-around tables to minimize reaching for food; and a meaningless "machine of emotional discharge," which he designed for laughs...