Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with stories on a wife-beating and a temperance rally one Saturday in 1851, Horace Greeley's New York Tribune printed a smoldering account of social upheaval and political intrigue in Europe. Under the headline: REVOLUTION AND COUNTERREVOLUTION, the Tribune dispatch carried the staccato byline: Karl Marx...
...assumed as almost certain that they were Essenes, an ascetic Jewish sect hitherto known chiefly from the accounts of Josephus and Philo. Much information about the Dead Sea covenanters is contained in the original scrolls (now in the Hebrew University just across the bristling boundary from the Jordanian Scrollers in the Israeli half of Jerusalem). Those first seven scrolls included, in addition to two versions of the book of Isaiah and a collection of apocryphal stories based on Genesis, four documents relating to the Dead Sea sect itself: 1) the Rule of the Community (also known as the Manual...
...International Harvester is pushing biggest U.S. farm-equipment maker ahead of American Motors Corp. as nation's No. 4 automotive producer. New figures show International's 1956 truck sales jumped two-thirds to $573 million, ranking company just behind front-running truckers Chevrolet and Ford. Trucks now account for 46% of International's business v. 29% for farm equipment...
Herb Scheiner retired the team in order in the seventh but gave up two singles and two walks and hit a batsman, which resulted in two runs in the eighth. The ninth inning was called on account of rain...
...Translator Humphries, who has also translated Ovid's Metamorphoses (TIME, May 23, 1955), wears his scholarship as loosely as a toga, and occasionally carries colloquialism to the point of topical slanginess ("Imagine her fitted by Dior!"). Ovid, Humphries argues, would have done the same. In a faintly disguised account of his own liaisons about town (The Loves), Ovid sees a love affair in two lights-either as sunlit sensuality or as a kind of mock-heroic comedy...