Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubles Yale has shown well this season and should be expected to given a good account of themselves in that category today. The return of Tom Freiberg after being laid off for most of the season leaves the precise doubles lineup uncertain, but it seems likely that Meyer and Schoonmaker will hold down the first position, followed by Auger and possibly Freiberg at second doubles and Jones and Wiener in the third position...
Secretary of State Dulles told his news conference in Washington yesterday that he would like to see a court test of his refusal to issue newsmen passports to visit Red China. But Nieman fellow, William Worthy, who had been denied a new passport on account of his recent unsanctioned trip to Red China, doubted last night that Dulles would allow his case to reach the courts...
...good cigar is a smoke-or is it? Could it be, in psychological reality, a preconscious device to impress that woman with one's virility? This, at any rate, is the view held by practitioners of a new offshoot of depth psychology known as Motivation Research. For an account of the mass psychology that has the whole U.S. economy on its analyst's couch, see MEDICINE, Psychology...
Heaped into sacks and bundled under the stairs of his house, the Datini papers came to light again in 1870, little the worse for damp and mice. They included no fewer than 150,000 letters, more than 500 account books, 400 insurance policies, numerous ledgers-all of them adding up to a unique record of early Renaissance trade and a remarkable story of an early capitalist. British-born Marchesa Iris Origo (Leopardi: A Study in Solitude-TIME, Aug. 2, 1954) has done a brilliant job of sifting the Datini papers and presenting them for the first time as a biographical...
...Homage to Catalonia he attempted to write an objective account of the Spanish War. In this book--I think it was his best--his conclusions were sparse, but they seemed to come as discoveries. They exemplified the message that his later works elaborated: that if you make words only out of what you know to be true, and if these words are more often short than long, concrete than abstract, active than passive, the craziest-seeming truth may become clear...