Word: present-day
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Paul Kiepe's letter [Aug. 24] on bread is a mouthful, and not of America's present-day loaf, either. Why, it won't even get stale ! Whenever the bakers of this country - excusing the independent souls in our small towns who still know what bread is - stop turning out stuff that is absorbent cotton in the mouth and lead in the stomach, bread will become once more a part of America's diet, reducing or otherwise...
...percentage of parity, insurance, loans, storage and marketing aids, REA and soil conservation, means one thing to most of the farmers I talked to: a reassuring piece of insurance against disaster. To them, there is no insurance in a "flexible farm program," or a program minus this or that present-day provision. In North Dakota G.O.P. Senator Milton Young said: "A flexible farm-support program will be tragic for the Republican Party." His words would be taken seriously...
...population boom will bring problems as well as opportunities. U.S. schools are already badly overcrowded, and an estimated $10 billion in new school facilities is already needed. As present-day youngsters grow into the work force, more jobs will have to be created by industry (perhaps an additional 8,000,000 within the next decade). Furthermore, the workers will have to increase their productivity, if high living standards for all are to be maintained, because two-thirds of the population growth will be between those either too young or too old to work. Those over 65 will number 16 million...
...rate authors like Faulkner and Hemingway with the big names of earlier generations? "There is a colossal difference in size. Think of the forest of great authors we had in the last century . . . Measured by such standards, the authors of today become primitive miniatures." His opinion of present-day literature? "I do not read many modern books. It is a too risky investment in time...
...three-dimensional attractions of its two leading ladies, this is a rather flat cinemusical. This version adds flashy songs, dances, Technicolor, a present-day setting and a happy ending to Anita Loos's famed 1925 bestseller about the fine art of gold digging during the jazz age. It also subtracts much of the original's satire, intelligence...