Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...based in Janesville, Wis., a thriving small town (pop. 22,992) in the Chicago Tribune's isolationist heartland. Last week, Parker decided that it was about time his 2,300 employees and the other citizens of Janesville learned how important foreign trade is to them. In an ad in the Janesville Gazette, Parker announced that 40% of the Sept. 19 weekly payroll (total: $125,000) would be paid in Mexican pesos. Although Mexico represents only one-fourteenth of the company's foreign business, he chose pesos because they were easily obtained and stable in value...
...often so evenly matched that an iota of stamina cdn mean the difference between victory and defeat. He argued that it was scientifically sound to press only on the right points. One time to press: when serving from the left court; the two big points, "thirty-fifteen" and "ad," begin there and it is less hazardous (for a right-handed player) to come into the net than from the deuce court. Another Roche tip: after a long set, when it is human nature to let down, give the first two games of the next set everything...
...made more money than ever (for Conde Nast Publications and Hearst, respectively). Their circulations (Harper's, 225,000, plus 39,000 British; Vogue, 304,000, plus 100,700 British and 12,000 French) are at an alltime peak. Recent issues have been skinnier than last year's ad-fat ones, and to cut costs Vogue recently cut its output from 24 issues a year to 20, boosting its price from 35? to match Harper's (50? a month...
...effectuating the second part of this resolution the ad hoc committee could perform a desirable service. Although it is not noted for its pliability, the University might abandon tradition if urged by a large number of students and organizations. But the third part of the resolution makes the motives of those who passed it extremely suspect. They appear to be inordinately concerned with getting their names or the names of organizations to which they may belong associated with that of Mr. Wallace. There was no question of the competence of AVC to handle the details of the Wallace visit...
...remind me of a man." B: "What man?" A: "The man with the power." B: "What power?" A: "The power of who-do." B: "Who-do?" A: "You do!" B: "Do what?" A: "Remind me of a man." B: "What man?" . . . And so on, ad infinitum...