Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acres and Pains" tries hard to laugh its way into the honor spot conceded "Crazy Like a Fox" and "Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge," but falls somewhat short of red-hot. Perelman subjects must be taken in short doses to remain fresh, but, "Acres and Pains" lacks the necessary shift of topic, becoming a well-executed, if occasionally heavy rehash of life on the farm. Composed of a series of magazine articles filled in with new material, the book does not show a continuous level of quality throughout. The older, more familiar chapters emphasize the bawdy wit of Perelman...
...with greater facility. And we were never one for that sort of thing." He had even offered the News to his I.T.U. employees, he said, if they would just pay him I.T.U. wages in return. They turned him down, so he was calling it quits. His printers could shift for themselves; Publisher Allen had sold his equipment for more than $50,000, was taking his wife and heading for the Caribbean in a surplus Marine Corps plane he had bought...
...Businessmen," wrote their longtime friend, Editor David Lawrence of the United States News, "are about to be given the same dose of smear publicity that they were given in 1933. Economic crisis is at hand and political government wants to shift the blame from its own shoulders...
...alumni, like to feel that our alma mater is not a place to reform "bad boys," but a school of opportunity for boys who need a chance. . . . Maybe I am quibbling with words but the shift of emphasis is important to me and to my fellow alumni. Most of us are proud of having been connected with such a worthwhile school. . . . W. E. STEPHENSON Chicago
...humanity they have labored in obscurity to serve. Reader Hull, like any good scientist, must realize that the distant goal has not been made unattainable by the latest development. He and the rest to whom the presidency of Columbia University was the ultimate need merely and slightly to shift their...