Word: difference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exeter's new principal, William Gurdon Saltonstall, was not deterred. The whole thing, he said solemnly, was a question on which "reasonable men and boys" might differ...
Agatha Christie promptly begged to differ, reported that "we still have some tricks to play," cooed: "My own experience is that detective stories are being read more than ever." Ellery Queen held a contradictory mirror up to Father Knox's words, reassured himself: "Readers get more wary, but writers get more clever." People would always read mysteries, declared Leslie Ford and David Frome in unison. "Monsignor Knox is talking through his hat," cried Rex Stout, "-if he wears...
...anything else in them as a regrettable defection from duty. But Patterson recognized that readers wanted something that was part almanac, shopping guide, magazine and variety show as well as news bulletin board. Like U.S. radio, the press dealt in news, entertainment and commercials; the amount of each might differ, but the ingredients were the same. Patterson's mixture called for health hints and horoscopes, patterns and etiquette, advice for the lovelorn and tips on the horses-and compelling, habit-forming comics. Most of the strips that helped his lusty tabloid grow were named by him (Dick Tracy, Orphan...
...Rationally their argument suffers before the cold-blooded logic of the Arabs." He has, of course, a right to his opinion, but the above statement is so phrased that it sounds suspiciously as if he wants it to be accepted as fact, which it is not. Granting that opinions differ widely, no one who has taken the trouble to read the terms of Britain's mandate over Palestine and the various White Papers and promises which have been made, or who examines the history of the Holy Land, can call the Jewish claim legally tenuous or based on weak evidence...
...when a gamma ray hits the nucleus of a spermatozoon or ovum (the reproductive cells which unite to form a new individual), it may damage one of the thousands of "genes" which carry hereditary characteristics from one generation to the next. This may produce a "mutation." The child may differ slightly or radically from its parents, or the difference may lie concealed until it is brought out by inbreeding in a later generation...