Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Observers on the spot, like Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, and Soviet experts in this country, agree that this remarkable self-confidence was the real hallmark of the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party...
...single factor in the book's success, a proof that emotive language need not be confined to poetry and advertising. Yet to call a work a successful epic, even when it combines scope, structure, and expression, is always dangerous. Perhaps more fitting would be the suggestion that for the twentieth century, Tolkien is more acceptable and more comprehensive than Malory, Spenser, or Milton...
...almost invariably engaged in defeating the last slump." For long years, U.S. economists were, in fact, best known for their hindsight. But in recent years, business analysts have come out of the ivory tower and into the marketplace. Dozens of organizations, e.g., the Council for Economic Development, the Twentieth Century Fund, keep the public informed on business trends. In business and in government today, few decisions are made without an' economic "fix" from an expert...
Joseph W. Barker, president and chairman of the Research Corporation, announced the selection and noted that Woodward, in becoming the twentieth recipient of the award, "joined a distinguished company including Vannevar Bush, Percy W. Birdgman, Ernest C. Lawrence, Bruno Rossi, Edwin M. McMillan, Edward C. Kendall, Samuel A. Goudsmit, and George E. Uhlenbeck...
When the lights came back on again, Dr. Jekyll's assistant had made about the twentieth row and seemed to be clutching a snake. "It's all clean and all in fun," Dr. Jekyll giggled. After hypnotising David who had been standing around a while, Dr. Jekyll announced, "Now comes the horror part of our show...