Word: myriads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still has a steady circulation of 2,682,144, just about as big as it has ever been. Yet, in the last ten years advertisers have been steadily deserting the 35? family monthly. "I don't know exactly what the reasons are," says Smith. "I guess they are myriad." By cutting costs, American managed to pare its losses from $800,000 in 1953 to $150,000 in 1954, and last year it broke even. In the first half of this year, as advertising kept thinning out, losses grew to $300,000. Smith decided that the task of wooing advertisers...
...Dodge and Rowland Hughes probably have come as close as is presently possible to fusing business efficiency with the myriad and disparate bureaus and functions of the U.S. Government. Again it was Charlie Dawes, the man with the first word on the budget, who also had the last word on the paradoxes that might arise when a department of orderliness tries to operate in a government of calculated confusion. "Much as we love the President," he adjured his fellow budgeteers, "if Congress, in its omnipotence over appropriations, passed a law that garbage should be put on the White House steps...
...with the protons and one another, forming heavier elements. The original nuclear reactions were complete in a few minutes, and they generated so much energy that the ylem (from Greek, original matter) blew up with cosmic vigor. The pieces flew apart. They are still flying apart today as the myriad galaxies of the expanding universe...
...seems that it is impossible for Protestants to assemble without throwing mud at the Catholic Church. This in itself is proof of the spiritual bankruptcy of Protestantism. When Catholics get together, they have more constructive things to talk about than the myriad shortcomings of Protestants...
...space concepts is as easy to find: in the confused welter of the modern cityscape with its forest of TV aerials, bridges, air-raid-siren platforms, metal scaffolding and skyscraper girders. In the hands of U.S. sculptor-welders, this new handling of space has resulted in a myriad of styles from a long roster of native talents...