Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retorts that definition isn't everything. More important, it claims, is the amount of "information" the picture conveys to the eye. The faithful colors in its system, CBS insists, give so much extra information that the viewer is glad to sacrifice a little definition...
...Ford has used what is probably a record amount of experience to fill this movie with fine, familiar technicolor scenes. His cavalry troop, its shiny horses steaming in the cold, jogs out on morning patrol; it moves patiently along a ridge against the jostling clouds of a thunderstorm. It deploys behind its red-and-gold guidon for a charge, plays taps when it buries its dead, and sings a lot of good cavalry songs. Ford's officers sit straight in the saddle, and their gold fore-and-aft shoulder bars gleam in the sun. His two lieutenants (one a wealthy...
With an appeal to those who have not yet made contributions, Haynes announced gifts totalling close to $34,000. Faculty contributions have reached almost $25,000, while employee donations have passed the $6,500 mark. Student gifts amount to about...
...cravats, he could charm Chicago hostesses when he wanted to. But he was also irrepressibly flip. Asked what he thought of Yale, he replied: "Compared to Chicago, Yale is a boy's finishing school." Asked what he thought of Chicago, he said: "The faculty does not amount to much, but the president and the students are wonderful." When he prepared to testify before a committee of the Illinois legislature (after Drugstore Tycoon Charles Walgreen had charged that his niece was being taught Communism at the university), Trustee Laird Bell offered to pay Hutchins $25 for every wisecrack he didn...
Fuller Shelves. Many retailers had already cleaned up their inventories too thoroughly. Last week they were busily restocking. After ten months of successive decline, U.S. retail inventories had jumped a tidy $500 million in September. There was still a tremendous amount of pent-up buying power. Disposable income had risen 4.8% in 1949's first half over the same period last year, to an annual rate of $194.6 billion, and personal savings had almost doubled...