Word: singularability
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...college professor, Johns Hopkins' Economist Clarence D. Long is gloomily aware that his earning power has been steadily losing ground in the endless marathon with rising living costs. As a practicing economist, he is also professionally concerned by "this singular inability of the pedagogue to hold his place at the American banquet table...
...Communist Party could recruit its agents, not here and there, but by scores within the Government of the U.S. . . . Between the years 1930 and 1948, a group of almost unknown men and women, Communists or close fellow travelers, or their dupes, working in the U.S. Government or in some singular unofficial relationship to it . . . affected the future of every American now alive . . . Their names, with half a dozen exceptions, still mean little or nothing to the mass of Americans. But their activities, if only in promoting the triumph of Communism in China, have decisively changed the history of Asia...
...braved a California storm to hear his King Oedipus, based on a William Butler Yeats translation of Sophocles' play. Explained Partch: "The tone of the spoken word and the tone of an instrument are intended to combine in a compact emotional and dramatic expression, each providing its singular ingredient...
...split became apparent, Tucker said, when the two factions couldn't agree on the issue of Soviet aggression. "We're interested in general policies, such as opposition to violence everywhere. They were interested in more singular objectives like demilitarization in mainly one country...
Your Dec. 3 issue has an article on Charles Francis Potter, humanist. After a singular career of not being able to make up his own mind, he wishes to win people to his latest way of thinking . . . Surely Mr. Potter must know from his study of the Bible that even St. Peter, whom God chose as His vicar...