Word: singularly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Langlie's subordinate, Editor-Publisher Wiese (rhymes with lease) was in the singular position of making more money than his boss ($65,000 v. $50,000). In addition, he understandably knew far more about the magazine. Now a grey-haired 53, Wiese was just 22 when he became editor of struggling McCall's in 1927. With a free hand, he built his magazine into a slickly edited blend of women's fiction and womanly fact that is second in circulation only to Curtis' high-heeled Ladies' Home Journal...
...Harcourt, Brace; $4). As ever, Poet Cummings celebrates the life of feeling-love, death and the infinite sea changes of nature. Age has only slightly mellowed Cummings, has not at all curbed his typographical pretzel bending-which can now be recognized for the attention-holding device it is. Fresh, singular, vivid and intense, Cummings' verses recall the aim he once set for himself as a poet: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child...
...India, where young girls were once dedicated to temple gods as devadasis, whose mission was to serve worshipers with their bodies, whole castes and communities engage in prostitution, and the government's long war against the profession has met with singular lack of success. When the state of Bengal tried to shut down brothels after World War II, it merely found itself confronted with a sudden rash of "Bath and Massage Clinics." Now much the same story seemed to take place again. Outside New Delhi's Parliament building 75 sari-clad young women protested to M.P.s...
...fairly asserted that the standard is false and the influence deplorable. The Pudding seeks for "gentlemen", not in the sense of men of honor, nor in that of men of polished manners, but in that of men of large means and little brains, possessed with the singular delusion that they occupy a social position higher than the rest of mankind... a few men of ability are admitted on condition of repaying by uniform obsequiousness, the favor of associating not indeed on terms of equality, but by tolerance with persons so immeasurably their superiors...
...civilian experts, a staff of advisers-and by General Eisenhower. Fortnight ago McElroy began sending his conclusions to the President, who took the recommendations as raw material, retooled them in the shape of his own convictions on military organization. Almost every paragraph bristles with Ike's first person singular, e.g., "I have long been aware . . ." "I have directed . . ." "I therefore propose . . ." Many conclusions are based directly on his service as World War II Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, his postwar tour of duty as Army Chief of Staff (1945-48) and adviser on earlier unsuccessful attempts at unification. Principal...