Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...account is thus personal rather than institutional. White says, "the Senate is in a sense a high assembly but in a deeper sense it is a great and unique human consensus of individual men." And so he looks at the Senate, ninety-six inscrutable prima donnas, "with all its strengths and weaknesses rather as one would try to deal with the story of an extraordinary and significant...
Geoffrey Holder (who plays the slave, Lucky) gave a fascinating stream-of-consciousness account of his feelings from the first rehearsal through last Friday's performance. Rex Ingram explained the religious significance of Pozzo's role and his own feeling of personal identification with the character. Earle Hyman (Didi), with his usual facile articulateness, talked about his own cultural reactions (including music and art), and later said, "I wouldn't have been able to learn my lines in this play unless every one of them meant something definite to me. . . .Nevertheless, I still consider myself a Shakespeare man" (a highly...
...yardstick of his own and says that all three fall wide of the mark. Nielsen's rivals-who also rap each other's techniques-seize on the fact that Nielsen's national system measures the tuning of sets, not the number of viewers, and does not account for the chance that the set might be playing to unheeding householders or even to an empty living room. ARB insists that this is a big factor; Nielsen insists that it is negligible...
...Jones is not a dollar average at all, but a point average. Dow statisticians calculate it by totaling the per-share value of 30 prime industrial stocks (among them: Du Pont, General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel), then dividing the sum by a "constant divisor" which they adjust to account for stock splits. Currently, the divisor stands at 4.566, meaning that each point in the average is equal to $1 divided by 4.566, or about 22?. Thus, a 6-point jump is only about $1.32 in actual dollar value, a fact some amateurs learn to their chagrin when they rush...
...nicknamed "jumbo." But Henry W. Marsh, an agile, fast-talking supersalesman, and Donald R. McLennan, a careful technician who knew how to make salesmanship pay off, soon changed all that. M. & M. advised the Moore Brothers' Diamond Match Co. and National Biscuit Co. empire, won the insurance account for what later became U.S. Steel, convinced the Great Northern Railway that it should place its first comprehensive insurance schedule covering all the road's operations. Going into marine insurance, it helped change the entire meaning of the term to cover virtually any cargo that was moved and stored, whether...