Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe your paper is hurting Valley City, and that you should dispose of it to someone with a different slant on major issues; that in event you decline to sell it, another daily paper should be started...
Born. To Sono Osato Elmaleh, 27, sprightly, slant-eyed, Japanese-Irish-American ballerina (One Touch of Venus, On the Town), and Victor Elmaleh, 28, French Morocco-born architectural designer: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Niko. Weight...
...Bush-Fekete & Mary Helen Fay; produced by Elliott Nugent & Robert Montgomery) has a well-intentioned topical slant, but is really old folderol under new flags. It is one more tale of a man and girl divided by everything but their love for each other; only here, instead of being Guelph & Ghibelline, or Roundhead & Cavalier, they are a Soviet officer and an American newspaper correspondent (Philip Dorn & Claire Trevor). They meet in Russian-occupied Austria-the girl is there on her own, looking for an American who did treasonable broadcasts for the Nazis; the Russian is on furlough. While fighting over...
Does Matter Exist? LeGrand flouts Positivism, Hegelianism and Existentialism, but admires George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne (1685-1753), who also hailed the importance of sense experience, Berkeley's slant, however, was rather different from LeGrand's. The bishop claimed that matter has no existence except by being perceived; that a tree, say, would cease to exist when nobody is around to see it, except for the fact that it is always visible to God.* Berkeley's metaphysics made crusty old Dr. Sam Johnson so angry that he kicked a stone, saying: "Thus I refute Berkeley!" This...
...cheery practice session yesterday despite the inclement weather, because the Varsity had bounced back solidly form its Rutgers defeat with a 21 to 7 victory over Dartmouth at Hanover. After two scores in the first nine minutes of play, including a 57-yard off tackle slant by Gannon behind perfect blocking, the Crimson was forced back on its heels by the Indian passing attack as directed by Con Pensavalie, but returned to form in the final period to score a third touchdown and cut off all further Dartmouth bids by six skillful interceptions...