Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history of this recurrent American dream is unrolled with an unerring sense for drawing every last bit of humor from the situation. There are a few sub-happenings, like Blandings' professional struggle--he has to invent a new slogan for Wham Ham, Inc. There is also his wife's old but incipient romance with their old lawyer friend Bill Cole. But most of the action plods around the single spectre of Blandings getting fleeced...
...political speeches with quips like: "The Republicans have been in office for twenty months--or long enough to elect Maine's first Democratic governor in twenty years." There is also Mr. Stevenson's less famous but equally impressive facility with the serious metaphor, which allows him to describe the sub-standard, depressed areas of the American economy as "stagnant pools into which the tide of prosperity has failed to flow...
...University will be interested at first in training its scientists to operate the complex mechanical mind, according to Orcutt. These men will then solve the University's problems in such fields as aerodynamics and atomic research, where high speed calculations can help explain the mysteries of sub-atomic particles...
...Massachusetts Sub-committee on Dental Education and Advisory Committee to Selective Service resigned in a body yesterday in protest against Washington draft officials who have kept a dental school professor out of the armed forces...
Government tariff and tax exemption policies tend to injure industrially depressed areas, Seymore E. Harris, professor of Economics, said yesterday in testimony before Senator John Kennedy (D-Mass) and the Senate sub-committee on Labor and Public Welfare...