Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cutting through the indecision of the past months, President Truman has issued a clear call for action to alleviate Europe's food crisis. For the observer who has watched with increasing frustration the various emergency meetings, the extended world jaunt of Herbert Hoover, and the utter failure to act, this comes as a welcome appeal. For the member of the University it is more than an appeal, it is a challenge to express in deed his concepts of idealism...
Maxwell Anderson, lambaster of drama critics (TIME, March 11), had a drama critic in the family. Son Quentin, 34, was new play appraiser for the highbrow literary quarterly Kenyon Review. On his father's recent troubles, Critic Anderson refused to utter a word...
...evening concluded with a place of utter tripe--the Goldmark Overture to Sakuntala which gave Holmes an opportunity to loss the whole school into the battle. To the usual two bassoons and two clarinets. The work was never well orchestrated, and the instrumental weighting did not prove a help. It was better fun than it was music...
Thomas advocated a Socialist program of government ownership, which he declared would be no mere "radical" today than the atomic bomb. Professor Smith doubted that "full employment to attainable in a system of full free private enterprise and free choice by purchasers." Senator Hickenlooper maintained that "it would be utter folly for the government to rearrange our economy and create the illusion that everyone would have...
...would be utter folly to attempt to protect the United States against attack with atomic weapons by 'keeping the secret of the atomic bomb,'" Mather stated. "Almost all the fundamental scientific principles pertaining to nuclear fission were known to physicists of all countries in 1939. The only secrets of the atomic bomb pertain to the techniques of detonation and the specifications of machinery and apparatus...