Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ "The commission never misses a chance to communicate the news that our educational institutions are far too intellectual. This will certainly surprise the students, parents, teachers, administrators who have had anything to do with our educational system. To the disinterested observer, the American educational system looks like a gigantic...
In the misshapen ranks of the world's diseases, poliomyelitis is only an infant-sized killer compared with a giant like malaria. As a disabler, it stands well below mental illness. But polio is the disease most feared by U.S. mothers, for it strikes with cruel suddenness, and (though...
¶ Pilot Radio last week unwrapped the first television set to sell for less than $100. But as the price tag grew smaller ($99.50), the set shrank in proportion: the new model has a squinty screen no bigger (2 in. by 3 in.) than a ten of spades.
The story, such as it is, evolves among five characters: a sort of bush-league saint (James Cagney) who tries to make people happy; a dim Man Friday (Wayne Morris); a B-girl* (Jeanne Cagney) who claims to have been prominent in burlesque; a fine old pathological liar (James Barton...
"Are you going to Europe this summer, too?" If you are, it won't be an original idea. Paris expects 100,000 clean cut young Americans on Bastille Day (July 14) or thereabouts, and a good proportion of these will be Harvard A.B.'s, 1948 vintage.