Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twentieth century dictators are specialists in setting up awkward gambits for their opponents-confronting them with the choice of fighting over unattractive terrain for inconsequential gains, or making what proves to be a humiliating and costly retreat. Hitler was a master at it, but the Communists have dramatically advanced the technique. Last week they confronted Chiang Kaishek, the U.S., and the Western alliance with a hard choice over a tiny Pacific island named Quemoy...
...Brain surgery can now be performed with greater precision, using ultrasonic vibrations (a million cycles per second, or 50 times faster than the highest audible note) instead of the neurosurgeon's knife. University of Illinois researchers have focused the beam down to one-twentieth of an inch in diameter-the thickness of a pencil lead...
...Twentieth-Century Fox not only got there first with CinemaScope, but has virtually captured the field. Its wide screens are already installed in just over 6,000 theaters, justifying the faith Fox President Spyros P. Skouras and Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck had in the new process. The first CinemaScope film, The Robe, has already grossed around $21 million at home and abroad and is crowding the alltime record of $35 million for Gone With the Wind. Another testimonial came last week in Fox's earnings report for the first half of the year. Net climbed...
mission saw was a land of "poverty and hunger," of "barely . . . food enough to keep life in the people," where "vast areas . . . are desert." Though 80% of its 44 million depend for a living on the soil, less than a twentieth of the land is cultivated, and only a tenth of its potential realized. It is backward and unstable, a menace to itself and the world's peace...
...believes," as the 1914 yearbook puts it, "that there is good in every man and seeks to make that good predominate." Columbia's Talbot Hamlin, 65, ranking U.S. architectural historian, authority on early 19th century American architecture, editor of the monumental (four volumes, $80) Forms and Functions of Twentieth Century Architecture. The son of a professor of architecture, Hamlin entered the field almost by instinct ("Well, let's put it this way. I never wanted to do any thing else"), made a name for himself in practice, turned to teaching, became the bearded, debonair exponent of a brand...