Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noel F. Busch has written, instead of a biography, a zippy account of the founding of 'Time,' with special reference to the life of Briton Hadden. A good bit of that account is fascinating, but taken altogether, it does not make a satisfying book. For the result is no more a thorough picture of 'Time's' origin and growth than it is a thorough job on Hadden...
...seemed to him that he had never been filled with such peculiar feelings. Conscious that his roommate would want to know where he had been, he did his best to account for the experience. But the moment was too full--thought was impossible and Vag found the new sensation delightful indeed. He was aware that any attempted thought would break the spell immediately. This was the moment for which he was meant. Dropping deeper into the aesthetic whole, he toyed with one shoelace in an effort to prolong the experience, but all of a sudden, the experience was over...
...typical of German callousness that this situation exists, and typical of German cleverness in turning a disgraceful situation to their own account that they draw attention to these scabrous places as proof of "German" misery...
...weren't sure how the plan would affect them. The vocal, well-organized real-estate groups yelped in noisy pain. "It's a phony and a fraud," cried one big Boston apartment owner. Landlords claimed that Woods's formula was based on false mathematics, took no account of the value of their property. According to many landlords, they would be collecting only 2 to 3% on the "fair value" of their properties even if they could wangle an increase...
...Robert Ryan in a hard-slugging account of the fall of an overaged pug (TIME, April...