Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another asset we found at Harvard is the historical approach to Religion. We feel this is the soundest approach, as it prevents hasty crystallization, and permits a critical appraisal of all points of view, including NeoOrthodoxy and "Humanism" which as systems of religious thought cut across denominational lines, but neither of which should characterize our School...
...show's biggest asset is pint-sized Nancy Walker (Best Foot Forward, On the Town), who, as class-conscious Yetta Samovar, shows all her likable toughness, sharp timing and comic verve. But Nancy Walker's biggest asset is her way with a good brassy ballad, which she chants in a good brassy way, and Barefoot Boy allots her exactly...
...handsome, excessively rugged individualist named George Plummer Mc-Near Jr. bought the bankrupt Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad for $130,000 down (price: $1,300,000). The road had one great asset-transcontinental freight trains used it to get around Chicago...
...fabulous wealth of the Arabian Nights. The ocean contains a minimum of 26 billion barrels (1¼ times the proved reserves of the U.S.), a maximum of 150 billion barrels. How much is this worth? In cash, enough to make a hundred Rockefellers; as a military asset, as nations count, it is beyond price...
...vivid way-and in her knowledge of how to project her personality on the screen (this is only her second movie)-she is one of the most impressive women since Garbo. Lacking Garbo's peculiar, dreamlike power to enchant, she has in great abundance an asset Garbo never had: earthy sexuality...