Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...advice. (The reply was overwhelmingly in favor of a papal pronouncement -TIME, Nov. 22, 1948.) And though there is no reference to the belief in the canonical Scriptures, the Assumption has been celebrated as a regular feast day since as early as the 7th Century. The new dogma would make only one difference. For Roman Catholics to doubt the truth of the doctrine today would be merely sinful, or, as the church puts it, "temerarious or rash." After Pope Pius XII pronounces it a dogma, disbelief in the Assumption will be considered formal heresy...
What Do Ants Do? As a cautious scientist, Irving Langmuir himself would never go so far as Julius Slutsky's guests. But he is convinced nonetheless that man can make rain if he goes about it at the right time and in the right...
Langmuir laughs and says: "We'll have to wait and see." With his radars and pocket thermometer, his optimism and his energy, he hopes to make ducks & drakes, some day soon, of New Mexico's perennial drought...
...Southwestern, for example, students spend seven out of their twelve terms in Dallas hospitals-"which ought to be enough." In fact, said Dr. Hart, the intern system sometimes does more harm than good. Under a "hierarchy of hospital staffers" the intern comes to depend on continuing supervision, which may make his transition to independent practice more difficult...
...massive press conference in RKO's chart-lined budget room, Wald and Krasna beamed over the details of the juiciest independent production deal in movie history. In five years, Hollywood's "wonder boys" would make $50 million worth of A pictures for RKO release. The movies, to be cranked out at a production-line rate of twelve each year, would be financed 40% by Howard Hughes and 60% by Eastern banks. Besides weekly salaries of $2,700 apiece, Wald and Krasna would rake in 50% of the net profits on each of their 60 films...