Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week on Valentine's Day, instead of scrapping, the two companies kissed and made up. To avoid the expense and confusion of a long patent battle, Scripto and Parker signed an agreement (in ink) that will allow them to use each other's formulas for a royalty. Scripto, as it has previously, will concentrate on the low-priced field; Parker will stick to the higher-priced pencil. Both companies will use Parker's Liquid Lead name, hoping that the agreement will discourage the kind of fly-by-night competition that almost ruined the industry...
...that will make leather virtually waterproof. First use of the chemical (trade name: Sylflex) will be for shoes. The Charles A. Eaton Co. will use it on golf shoes; Endicott Johnson Shoe Corp. will try it on a combination work-and-sports boot. Treated shoes will shed water, still allow air to come through to cool the foot...
...would award the grants only to students entering the junior year in college, qualified seniors as well might receive one-year grants. And if a State Department agency is to advise the scholarship holders on their course program, as the Committee suggests, that supervision should be mild enough to allow these students to gain the full educational benefits of their college years. Flexibility should be the keynote of the system. But whatever the details, the State Department should seek authorization for a scholarship program in this session of Congress...
...steady but average squad will have to go all out to pile up the seconds and thirds which it has used in dual competition to equalize its enemy's wins. Cornell, Manhattan and Villanova also have such a swarm of top runners that they may overpower the varsity and allow the Elis or the Terriers to take the meet, as the latter schools rely more on a few outstanding stars than on depth...
...incurable loneliness and anguished uncertainty of an individual torn between the violent ecstasies of love and devotion to work retain a humble simplicity. Introspection leads only as far as instinct will allow it. For example, after Rence Nere (Colette) finds that she is in love again, she writes, "I tremble too much lest I should see rising, through the veil of the rain, a country garden, green and black, silvered by the rising moon which passes the shadow of a young girl dreamily winding her long plait around her wrist, like a caressing snake...