Word: surer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the demand for Old Masters continues, nothing is surer than the shrinking of the supply-especially since the best paintings are continually being frozen into permanent public and private collections. The result, as the London Economist recently cautioned would-be investors: "Too much money has been chasing too few good pictures...
...committee ("to study the creation of a common organization .. .") Perhaps too much had been sought too soon, sighed some good Europeans: perhaps this cluster of nations which had so often been a cockpit of war must first learn to work together as nations. Perhaps the slower way was the surer way . . . But it was not said with much enthusiasm...
...surer of his safety than he had a right to be in a Communist country. Before the week was out, Djilas and Dedijer were haled into the district court of Belgrade for four hours' questioning. The hearing, announced the government, is the opening of a "criminal investigation against Djilas and Dedijer, because of slanderous and hostile propaganda directed at damaging abroad the most vital interests of our country, a criminal...
...complex world of French journalism, ownership of newspapers and magazines is often a closely guarded secret and political pasts something many publishers would rather not discuss. No one is more mysterious about his past or surer of his present than aging (69), aloof Jean Prou-vost, whose LIFE-like picture weekly, Paris-Match (circ. 1,160,000), is one of the biggest magazines on the Continent, and who also holds financial control of the conservative, respected Figaro (circ. 499-200), oldest daily in France. Among French newsmen and politicos. Publisher Prouvost has been called everything from the "obscene corrupter...
...Sweet and Brownell have run their tally of scanned subjects (including normal volunteers for comparison) to well over 200. The machine, they hope, will save many a patient from dangerous surgery inside the skull for the sole purpose of getting information and will make the operation far surer in cases where a lurking tumor is disclosed...