Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blue. The trouble goes deeper than the quality of color. The black-and-white programs that make up the vast bulk of TV fare (80% on color-conscious NBC) often seem wan and whiskery on color sets. Color reception takes such keen tuning that many a would-be customer loses heart while the salesman fumbles. Moreover, color reception must be live to be good. In the West, where night network shows are often Kinescoped to meet the time differential, viewers complain that all the hues come out blue...
What Does a Tailor Do? For Israel's teachers such scenes are all too familiar. In the 20% of the schools that have mixed classes, the vast difference between the knowledge of the Europeans and the Orientals has become the nation's most frustrating educational problem. Many...
Unless there is a vast and unexpected expansion in the domestic and foreign markets, the Republican belief that there are too many farmers must be accepted as the most realistic, if not the most humanitarian approach. Both parties have made similar suggestions on how to enlarge the market--increased distribution to schools, the needy in this country, and abroad. But foreign markets are limited because any large-scale sales or grants driven down prices on the world market. Such a move would hurt if not ruin the economies of many friendly nations...
...vast number of Victorian sub-intrigues and love affairs make a coherent summary of the plot impossible. The spiral staircase is in the old Warren House, run by Professor Warren (George Brent) and owned by old Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore) who is dying upstairs, attended by Helen the dumb maid (Dorothy McGuire). She cannot talk. When young Dr. Parry arrives to attend to old Mrs. Warren, he falls in love with Helen. Then the professor's step-brother, Stephen Warren, turns up, and young ladies commence dying, among them Stephen's own girl friend, Blanche (Rhonda Fleming...
Ferry's plan is based upon the valid assumption that the Houses should become the social and intellectual centers of Harvard, both to improve the present situation and prepare for any future expansion. Otherwise, Harvard might become a vast, diffuse intellectual factory...