Word: rateness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...issues, for example, Time carried articles on the doings of Parliament, the state of the nation's defenses, profiles on Disraeli and George Sala, one of the first roving correspondents. There was an article on Queen Victoria's Windsor apartments by an anonymous palace stringman, a first-rate TiMEstyle piece on James Marwood, the public hangman; a survey of drunkenness in Britain, several articles by a Time reporter on industrial relations and strikes, a blast at England's Royal Academy...
...science. As a result, draft boards had smaller pools to draw from. Most men in their 20s who had no previous war service were the culls of World War II draft lists. And the new draft eligibles - the 19-year-olds - were children of Depression years when the birth rate fell...
...always paid 50?," grumped the town treasurer. Young Dr. Luce, the son of a Yankee sea captain who knew shoal waters when he saw them, swallowed hard and adjusted his rate...
Most church architecture in the U.S., writes Journalist Georges Fradier, "may evoke an English cathedral, a Corinthian temple or a bathhouse, but the interior is always the same: that of a third-rate movie palace . . . Varnished benches present a comfortable resting place for faithful buttocks. A drawing-room organ emits sugared water. A pulpit . . . two or three pots of flowers, that is all the decoration. Some temples retain an altar, but this outmoded object serves only to support a still larger number of flower pots...
Maybe this year's freshmen need inspiration; perhaps the new generation of yard dwellers is more conservative, or are just not impressed by a big show. At any rate, should an old grad wander into the Union this week he might wonder whether a Smoker campaign was going on, or the men of '54 were merely advertising for a baby parade...