Word: hints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced...
...Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced...
...that time, there was no hint of the famed Musial batting crouch. He began leaning forward a trifle in 1942, his first full season in St. Louis, and hit a respectable .315. His salary did not figure to make him rich, but he remembered one of the reasons why Eddie Dyer advised him to become a Cardinal-the possibility of a share of World Series money. His first two years in big-league baseball, thanks partly to Musial, the Cardinals won the pennant. His shares amounted...
More to Come. Then there was 37-year-old Communist Renato Guttuso. His painting of a peasant wood chopper being shot in the back gave a broad hint of why Guttuso's Italian fellow Communists now object to his work. The poster-bright colors and the shapes which looked as if they had been hacked out by a hoe were reminiscent of Comrade Picasso's art, but like Picasso's they deviated from the "realism" the party presently admires. At the opposite extreme was 52-year-old Antonio Donghi's meticulous The Hunter, which...
Just what did the exhibitors think the public really wanted? No one said. Nor did any of the exhibitors hint at what Hollywood suspected was their big $10 million motive: to get up a new supply of films against which the major studios will have to compete when they have to rent out each movie individually under federal decrees...