Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest threats to the success of the devaluation is the possibility that British wages and other costs will arise. Professor Smithies is optimistic about this point: "I think British costs can stay down because I don't believe there is much likelihood that wages will rise by much. And even if wages and costs should rise somewhat, they can't possible rise by the thirty per cent of devaluation...
...long as the authorities remain silent, these political beliefs can be taken as the basis for the exclusion order. One striking indication that this is true is Shortliffe's story of how he was sharply questioned last May in the consular office in Toronto. What did he think about Indo-China? Would he prefer De Gaulle or the Communists to rule France? Did he believe in the overthrow of government by force...
Like many a younger child, the University of California at Los Angeles has long been jealous of its big sister at Berkeley, the University of California. Though U.C.L.A. has sprouted into something of an Amazon itself (present enrollment: 14,983), its graduates think it has sometimes been treated like a gangling adolescent. One graduate gripe: though Berkeley has had a law school for years, U.C.L.A. had none...
...acre hunting reservation in Wisconsin. Last week, puffing thoughtfully on one of his 300 pipes (briars, clays and cobs), King explained why his style is so successful: "There are many people whose musical desires are very simple. We try to play music so melodically simple that they think we are playing just for them...
...rendering of Don Quixote, Putnam says: "I have striven to avoid . . . an antiquated style and vocabulary and . . . any modernism that would . . . savor of flippancy." He is diffident about the result ("though I think I do these translations better as I grow older"), but need not be: it is one of the triumphs of the translator's trade...