Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sargent F. Kennedy '28, registrar of the College, said "We can't let just some people in a big examination room have 15 extra minutes. In a place like Memorial Hall it would distract people in other courses if we were to pass out some blue-books 15 minutes after they started writing," he added...
Although one incidental effect of the campaign was to help distract Argentina's attention from chronically rising prices, there seemed little doubt that Perón's main purpose was just what it appeared: to stamp out any possible rivals for political power. There was even some speculation that Juan Perón, although moving cautiously, was in danger of pushing the matter too far and provoking a genuine popular desire for the Catholic party he fears...
...which TV commercials fail to sell-and why. Since 1946, his Schwerin Research Corp., which has 30 clients (e.g., General Mills, Borden, Colgate-Palmolive), has tested more than 3,500 commercials on more than 1,000,000 viewers. Among his findings: that scantily clad models are poor saleswomen (they distract viewers from products they demonstrate); that a "baby sitter" who plugs a TV set as the best of any that she has seen in the homes where she has worked, is more effective than an "engineer"; that a professional chef who tells how easy a prepared cake...
...furor over this scene, though indeed it is the most impressive one in the film, is likely to distract attention from the picture as a whole; and the whole is an ambitious attempt to show what the American heartland was like when 60 million buffaloes roamed the plains. Disney fails-partly because of the smug, fatherly pats of approval he keeps giving the animal kingdom, as though he personally had founded it with Mickey Mouse. Here and there, however, the picture has a patch of beauty briary enough (as the nursery rhyme puts it) to scratch...
...Francisco Attorney Vincent Hallinan, 56, who picked up 135,007 votes as the Communist-backed Progressive Party's candidate for President last year, was convicted of evading $36,639.24 in income taxes from 1947 through 1950. A man who has never let the pinkness of his politics distract him from the green of his money, Hallinan had reported only 20% of his law income for the four years, had also written off as business deductions such bourgeois items as a gymnasium and swimming pool in his home...