Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Insidious Demands. The housewife is still one of TV's biggest question marks. The problem is whether or not women will find time to sit down and look. Yes, says Mullen: "Women find time to play bridge, to shop, to go to Ladies' Aid. They'll find time for television." Radio can be turned on and ignored; TV insidiously demands full attention. There are some who believe that TV may deliver the final blow to the art of conversation...
...Yes, Harlem had its gangs that mimicked on the streets the warfare their older brothers were waging in Europe and in the Pacific. But such activities were not confined to Harlem, nor to the city of New York. Actually, the school was one bright spot where law and order prevailed. We quote from the Harlem Report: "The school (J.H.S. 120) was run in a businesslike, efficient way with discipline well maintained, pupils orderly in halls and on stairways - a generally well-kept building. Principal, teachers and pupils deserved credit for this...
...vilifications under the cloak of immunity. No one that fell under these torrents of abuse was allowed to defend himself in any way or to cross-examine his accuser. Neither were the "defendants" permitted to read their prepared statements or to reply to questions with anything other than "yes" or "no" answers...
...Russian political-schools. All men who were real democrats were out away, and if one of them said only one word against the men, who reigned now in a "real-democratically manner," he came into a concentration-camp. You may say this is an institution of the "Nazi-time." Yes, it was, but there is only one difference. In the years 1933-45 only a dew Germans knew of this institutions and nearly no Germans knew what happened there, but now all men in the Eastern part of Germany and in the Western too know, that more than 16 concentration...
...profits this year equal to the profits of record-breaking 1947? As a spate of first-quarter reports came out last week, the answer to this $17.4 billion question seemed to be a pleasant yes-and then some. For many a company, first-quarter profits were even fatter than the net for the corresponding period last year...