Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brattle has now turned its cinemascopic concern to the affirmation of those ideals that have inspired the American republic for centuries. This movie can partly be regarded as an expression of the American tradition of intellectual pragmatism as exemplified by C. S. Pierce and William James. It is in short, a "how to do it" and "who to do it too" in the most idealistic sense...
...years Londoners allowed themselves to be herded in and out of crowded Underground trains at the bellowed command of "Move along there, PLEASE!'' With the same unquestioning obedience, they marched off trains that stopped short of their scheduled destinations when ordered to and waited patiently on platforms for the next train...
Despite the looting, Cuba kept growing. Machado's graft-ridden, 700 mile cross-island highway became the avenue for thriving commerce; Batista's bribe of high wages to workers widened the consumer class, gave Cuba a living standard not far short of booming Puerto Rico's. Today Cuba is 75% literate, boasts some of the most advanced social and labor legislation in the hemisphere...
...abroad. He went to work for United Press in London in 1939 right out of Oxford, where he was the first American undergraduate to head the Labour Club; he wore a sandwich board in front of No. 10 Downing Street in demonstrations against the Conservative government. After a short stint with U.P. he joined CBS as Berlin correspondent early...
Trade-named Temposil by Lederle Laboratories, it is citrated calcium carbimide (CCC). A single tablet sensitizes the patient so fast that if he takes a drink within as little as ten minutes he will feel flushed and short of breath, and get a headache-all severely enough to make him turn against the bottle. Unlike disulfiram, CCC rarely causes vomiting, a marked drop in blood pressure, or other undesirable side effects. But the effects of CCC usually wear off faster, so if the alcoholic misses his medicine for a couple of days, he may fall off the wagon...