Word: slower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes all the top decisions, is brusque with slower-witted underlings. He insists that every memo to him must be no more than a page, but allows himself more latitude, has written memos as long as 30 pages. A collection of his better memos, bound in gold-tooled leather, is a prized Sarnoff possession...
...fiscal year with a budgetary surplus of $3,509,782,624, second biggest in its history. (Biggest: $8,419,000,000 in fiscal 1947-48.) The U.S. was in the black for the third time in 21 years because defense spending during fiscal 1950-51 was slower than anticipated, and federal income was greater than estimated: a record-breaking $48 billion. In spite of the surplus, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder went back to deficit financing. He announced that he would borrow $1,200,000,000, use most of it to retire $1 billion in short-term notes...
...more important has been the earlier start made by Harvard's rivals. Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale all stepped up Schools and Scholarship Committee activity immediately after the war; but Harvard was much slower to realize that it now usually takes more to attract a boy to a college than merely handing him an application form and the address of the Admissions Office...
...more important has been the earlier start made by Harvard's rivals. Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale all stepped up Schools and Scholarship Committee activity immediately after the war; but Harvard was much slower to realize that it now usually takes more to attract a boy to a college than merely handing him an application form and the address of the Admissions Office...
...alternative would have been to play the roles straight, delivering the speeches slower, at a lower pitch, and with more sublety. Dramatically, "Right You Are" would then have had to stand on its intellectual content, which could have been bolstered by more conviction on the part of the actors. On the other hand, that would certainly have made the play longer, probably duller, and possibly just as limiting, so perhaps the director and east did as well as they could...