Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breaking Ranks. As Freud's fame grew and his basic ideas came to be ever more widely accepted, he collected some minor honors, but time and again influential friends failed to get him the Nobel Prize, and he soon urged them to stop chasing "the Nobel chimera." He remained fanatically convinced that he had discovered absolute truths, and excoriated the defectors from his ranks...
...Black Boxes. Nor are U.S. businessmen content to stop there. Just as today's military radar sets, bombing systems, and automatic pilots are so fantastically complex that they must be removed and sent back to the factory for maintenance, so tomorrow's new radar ranges, electronic dishwashers and color TV consoles will have plug-in motors and control units that only factory experts will repair with special tools and special knowledge. The major labor the U.S. repairman will be called upon to perform-at his $5-an-hour fee-will be to take out a nonfunctioning unit, plug...
...truth, did organize the anti-appointments campaign--though not for political motives. It saw in the action of the majority members of the school committee a serious threat to the already weak Cambridge school system, and spurred on the other civic groups that were seeking to stop the appointments. The CCA itself was moved to act by the two school committeemen whom it had endorsed, Mrs. Catherine Ogden and Judson T. Shaplin, associate dean of the School of Education. These two fought against the majority of the committee in a valiant attempt to repeal the appointments...
Actually, most signs last week indicated that the creep, far from increasing to a gallop, was slowing to a stop. Sales of fixed-income bond issues are booming. The commodity market, classic escape for capital in inflationary periods, is in the doldrums. Washington officials see a chance that the September consumer price index figures will show no rise over August because of the seasonal drop in used-car and food prices. Eventually they expect that inflation will begin to creep again. To keep it from accelerating to a gallop, both sides agree on the need for wise use of credit...
...whole of him, and this for the simple reason that the parts apparently have no existence independent of the whole. Indeed, Casals himself, while he is playing, seems to have no existence independent of the music. Watching him, it is quite easy to imagine that if the music should stop, he would disappear...