Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baker's handicap has not prevented her from marrying twice or making good as a newspaper reporter, pressagent (for Chicago's Century of Progress), teacher, editor. She observes cheerfully that, besides being an asset in making friends, one-leggedness has many minor compensations: e.g., a pair of nylons lasts twice as long...
...surprises by next March 8" when the Yalies visit the pool, in the person of Tom Drohan, best of the Crimson's springboard staff. He added that Bob Aaron is shaping up well, and that Pate Stephens, although leaving in a few weeks for Greece, will be a valuable asset when he returns to College minus his v-12 uniform in February...
History majors who anticipate graduate study will no longer have to fit Latin into their programs, although some members of the history Department have declared that an A.B. is decidedly an asset in the teaching profession...
...gone, washed down roaring gullies or spirited away by stealthy "sheet erosion." And it was not only the backward South that was threatened with soil destruction. U.S. farmers everywhere, ignoring erosion by water and wind and over-cropping, were squandering the nation's most vital asset...
...picture itself may give a clearer idea than all this of why such things happen, but only under the most patient analysis. Actually, the plot's crazily mystifying, nightmare blur is an asset, and only one of many. By far the strongest is Bogart, who can get into a minor twitch of the mouth the force of a slug from an automatic. Another is Producer-Director Howard Hawks's fellow feeling for the Chandler world: even on the chaste screen Hawks manages to get down a good deal of the glamorous tawdriness of big-city low life, discreetly...