Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Richard Wagner. Rather, they amplify the old one-the "Archegotist" who called on his friends to pick up the checks and often gave them his scorn in return, the German genius who believed the world owed him both a living and its unbounded love, and offered it great operas in return...
...currently engaged in litigation with FCC. Though well satisfied with the success of the demonstration, RCA was not yet ready to estimate the costs of its new tricolor tube receivers. Said Executive Vice President C. B. Jolliffe: "We do not pretend that RCA color is perfect . . . The great virtue of this all-electronic system is that it offers opportunity for continuing improvements. It does not have the limitations inherent in incompatible [i.e., CBS] systems...
Snowy Plume. Dr. Houston and Major Tilman camped on a high ridge and climbed to about 19,000 ft. to study the south face of Mt. Everest. Even at this great height (about 3,000 ft. above the summit of Mt. Blanc), they saw tracks of rabbits, mice and snow leopards. There was no snow except in crevices, but above their heads a vast plume of snow whipped off the icy summit, blowing out miles downwind like a gigantic pennant. They made maps and took photographs. Then they rejoined the rest of the party and returned to New Delhi...
...Nonentity. When Harry Truman became President, Ross wrote for the P-D a cool, detached judgment of his old friend: "He has been called an average American, but he is better than average. He is not a nonentity and no Harding. He may not have the makings of a great President, but he has the makings of a good President." One of the first things President Truman did was to persuade Ross to give up his $35,000-a-year job with the P-D and become press secretary at $10,000 (later raised...
...books about World War II had somewhat the quality of mislaid telegrams, now found and opened but no longer urgent. Yet some were important for the record and others still generated excitement. Easily the most exciting and important were Winston Churchill's third and fourth volumes of his great history of the war, The Grand Alliance and The Hinge of Fate. Together with his amiable Painting as a Pastime and a book of speeches, Europe Unite, they established Churchill as one of the busiest writers of the year as well as one of the top royalty earners...