Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disowned the title of satirist. Insisted Miss Hokinson: "I see no reason for people to regard my ladies superciliously ... I [have always] considered them bright, sensible people and agreed with almost everything they said." Her fans had not seen the last of the Hokinson girls; The New Yorker still had ten unpublished cartoons...
Card-Playing. Still far out in front in the circulation parade is Britain's (and the world's) biggest newspaper, News of the World (circ. 8,320,000). In one recent issue, News of the World readers were served up such titillating headlines as WOMAN SCREAMED IN BUS QUEUE, CLERK WITH SPLIT MIND IN 4 A.M. HOTEL SCENE; UNCLE AND PARENT TO SAME CHILDREN; MEN THRASHED PIG UNTIL IT DIED. But what really sells the News of the World is not its headlines but its detailed, deadpan reporting of court testimony in all manner of sex and criminal...
Krieg's research indicates that even when the transmission stations are permanently damaged, the brain is still capable of receiving and translating electrical impulses artificially applied. Thus, Krieg says, if a certain point at the back of the brain is stimulated, the patient will "see" a flash of light in a precise part of his visual field...
...would raise the price of gold, and thereby devalue the dollar. To this, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder had said no, a thousand times no. He had flatly declared that the U.S. will not change the price of gold, that it has not even considered such a move. Still, the gossip and gabble continued...
While a higher gold price would probably have little effect on domestic prices, some thought that there was still a chance that it might give the U.S. another slight whiff of inflation. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, recently resigned member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, thought that "any tinkering with the dollar at this moment of delicate domestic and international adjustment would be one of the surest roads to demoralization and possible disaster...