Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acting too, was generally fine--considerably above the usual summer theatre level--so that none of the following criticism is very grave. Jeanne Jerrems as Isabelle was pretty, suitably unsure of herself in the rich surroundings, but just a slight bit stiff; Louis Edmonds, as the twin brothers, was good as the calculating Hugo but could probably have made the sheepish Frederic more of a contrast; Dee Victor grated well as Isabelle's unbearably oafish mother; Olive Dunbar overplayed Capulet, the servant with romatic ideas, a little too much; Stanley Jay as the crumbling butler, Laurinda Barrett as the vampish...
...committees were not much worried about nuclear-weapons tests. "High-yield" thermonuclear explosions toss radioactive material into the stratosphere, where it hangs for years drifting around the earth. The tests also raise the radio active level of large areas of ocean. But these effects are slight, and will do no appreciable harm unless the tempo of bomb testing is increased many times over. There is nothing, say the scientists, to the popular idea that bomb testing has upset the world's weather...
Kessler's best pitches are a slow ball and a slight curve, but control is his main strength. He was ninth in ERA among Eastern League pitchers this spring...
...showed that while overall wholesale trade declined 3% in April, it was still 8% above the comparable month of 1955; nondurable goods were 5% below March but 4% higher than April 1955, while durable goods averaged 13% higher than a year ago. Both might get some help from the slight easing of credit. As for Detroit's automakers, they were finally starting to nibble away at the record inventory of 905,000 unsold cars. With new-car sales of 500,000 units a month, dealers cut their new-car inventories to an estimated 825,000 cars...
...take into account the huge backlog of buying power behind bottled-up wartime shortages. Many of them underestimated the 1953 boom; many oversold the 1954 recession. Even in January 1955, as the U.S. hummed into an alltime record year, eight economists at a congressional hearing foresaw only a slight pickup from 1954. At the start of 1956, almost all economists were correct in predicting that business would be good for 1956's first half. However, said the University of Pennsylvania's Irwin Friend, the signs were so plain that "only a very silly forecast could have been wrong...