Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earth [April 12] appears to be both a sign of and one of the reasons for the other-worldly-and consequent so widely prevalent in Europe's churches; just as such theology and leadership as that of Dr. Van Dusen [April 19] appear to express and help to account for the worldly and consequent growing vitality-among Protestant churches in the U.S. There is nothing notably new, save, perhaps, the pious expression of it, in the feeling of frustration, not to say inferiority, in the face of current American ascendency which leads Earth, like many Europeans, to equate Communist...
...Stephanie Squires, secretary to TIME'S Boston Bureau Chief Jeff Wylie. Ann came to TIME in 1945 with wide political and newspaper contacts acquired as secretary of former Governor Saltonstall's press secretary. "She has," says Wylie, "an uncanny ear for quotes, which I envy. She keeps accounts, brews coffee, gets impossible reservations for unexpected delegations, struggles with appointments, pictures and air-express pickups. She doesn't have the fun that we reporters do chasing news. She sits at the desk when we are in an remote corner of Maine or some other place...
Schwable and the Army's famed Major General William F. Dean "attempted it only to have their carefully considered stories completely and quickly refuted by their captors . . . The collapse of Colonel Schwable's moral resistance began . . . with proof of the falsity of his original account. From then on, he was continually on the defensive, and successfully deprived of any element of moral ascendancy...
Many years back, for example, when Manhattan's Carl Byoir took over the Libbey-Owens-Ford plate-glass account, he got architects to plug for more glass in houses, had a book written on glass, encouraged automen to stress the safety features of more visibility (and more glass). By increasing the overall use of glass, Byoir helped boost sales of his client...
Nobody doubted it: Harvard needed a new bridge. The Boston Post suggested in 1911 that "somebody with a good, plump bank account might well devote some of its surplus age to the building of a safe and artistic Harvard bridge. That ramshackle old contraption is a peril and disgrace to the two cities that appear to be waiting for it to fall into the Charles, which it will probably do some fine day. Where is the millionaire who will immortalize himself and serve posterity by building a new bridge...