Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to our own beginnings, I thought you might like to look over our shoulder at the following excerpts from the original prospectus of Founders Henry Robinson Luce and the late the Briton Haddenthe newsmagazine idea. Now, 27 years later, much of it still seems to us to make great good sense...
TIME is not like the Literary Digest and is in no way modeled after it. The Literary Digest treats at great length with a few subjects selected more or less arbitrarily from week to week. TIME gives all the week's news in a brief, organized manner. The Digest makes its statements through its time-honored formula of editorial excerpts. TIME simply states. The Digest, in giving both sides of a question, gives little or no hint as to which side it considers to be right. TIME gives both sides, but clearly indicates which side it believes to have...
...life expectancy of the average Communist bigwig went down sharply. Not since the Great Purge of 1936-38 had the leadership of world Communism been so rent by fear and division. No leaders of Western Communism had yet been ousted (see below), but behind the Iron Curtain heads fell fast & furiously. Prime focus of the Comrades' trouble in the Russian satellite countries was Yugoslavia Heretic Marshal Tito, who continued to defy Moscow. But it was also a great year for purges inside Russia, where Georgy Malenkov, the Kremlin's rising star, quietly disposed of the last followers...
Last month, members of the Swiss Socialist Party became disturbed over the fact that the last resting place of the great Karl Marx was thus ignored. They sent a delegation to Dr. Longuet in Paris offering to tend and beautify the London grave. The doctor, onetime Socialist who turned Communist in 1939, indignantly refused. "As long as I live," cried Longuet last week, "I will not permit any anti-Marxists to meddle with the grave. The Socialists have no business at my grandfather's grave...