Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...someone said "next man" and I walked around the screen and sat down opposite the psychiatrist. He asked me my name, address, and field of concentration, and what I had done the previous summer. Then he checked off some more spaces on the sheet and said "fine, fine." I heard him say "next man" as I moved up to Station Eight...
...general, the America's Future broadcasts stress the overtaxing of the public, the value of free enterprise, and the dangers of the welfare state. But listeners have also heard that Britain has "moved into the twilight and confusion and frustration of a Planned Economy" and it is beginning to realize that it has "lost much of" its "precious heritage of freedom." According to America's Future, England has "wide-spread poverty, despair, distrust among friends and antagonism between employer and employee...
...following passage occurs: "Harvard provides husbands for over seventy percent of all Radcliffe women--and the figures range downward from there for all the other girls' schools in the vicinity. Some claim that this is a good thing, as no one else would have a Harvard man. We have heard several wives of Harvard men express approximately this opinion. 'No one else would have a Harvard man,' they...
...brass of General Motors Corp. this week heard advance news of a shuffling of their ranks. Executive Vice President Marvin E. Coyle, who started with G.M. as a secretary 39 years ago, will retire Jan. 1. Into Coyle's shoes as head of body fabrication, car assembly and accessory production will step short, dark and chunky Louis Cliff Goad, 49. It looked as if Goad was becoming the No. 3 man in the world's biggest manufacturing corporation. Ranking him will be President Charles E. Wilson and Harlow H. Curtice, the top executive vice president of the corporation...
...military victory. They range from a 1942 proposal to Admiral Harold R. Stark that naval planners use more ingenuity in thinking of ways to immobilize the Italian fleet ("I can't believe that we must always use the classical offensive against an enemy who seems never to have heard of it") to an attempt to elaborate on his unfortunately uttered "unconditional surrender" by referring to Grant's magnanimous treatment of the defeated...