Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company might try to combat Big Three competition by following along with the planned-obsolescence idea. Since the compact-car buyer is a discerning soul, he is not happy with yearly model changes. What he desires is gradual improvement where improvements count: in engine efficiency, better braking, lighter weight, lowered drag, better suspensions, readability...
...Threw the whole weight and wealth of U.S. influence behind the big European surge toward private enterprise and middle-class prosperity that mocked the basic Communist doctrine of class struggle, worked continually to bring to Western Europe some form of political-economic unity...
Back in 1950, when Al was still a heavy-weight-at-large hanging around the Frankfurt PX, he got to know some German girls with Negro babies. He heard the bitter stories of the Negerkinder. He heard about the little boy who, taunted by a ring of white children crying, "Du schwarzer Neger," answered them bitterly: "Be happy...
Born. To Mel Tormé, 33, cream-voiced crooner, once known as "The Velvet Fog," and Arlene Tormé, 28: their first child, a son (Tormé has two sons by an earlier marriage); in Hollywood. Name: Tracy. Weight...
...report, Dean Bender commented on the large (19 per cent) number of Harvard sons in the Class of '61. "Clearly considerable weight has been placed on Harvard parentage by the Admissions Committee, more weight than some will think is proper.... The fact is that the Harvard-son group is, academically at least, somewhat less able than the admissible candidate group as a whole, so that preference given to Harvard sons is greater than would appear from the above figures...