Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment of exuberance, Harry Truman declared that his biggest asset was his opponent, Tom Dewey, who had cried at Louisville, "Don't worry about me." The voters didn...
Light Up the Sky is more harsh than funny. It has very little wit-its long suit is billingsgate; and its most valuable asset is the malice displayed by everybody (and not least by the author*). At the end Mr. Hart has all his characters behaving beautifully again, and even implies that show folk are all just high strung screwballs anyway. It is a little as if, having blurted all the unpleasant truths he could think of, Mr. Hart blandly winds up with: "It was all just a joke; I didn't really mean a word...
Alicia had been forced to do it without benefit of the habit-forming comic strips that helped popularize the Daily News. But she had another asset: her newspaper know-how learned at her father's knee...
...psychiatrist says conscience is often a doubtful asset, the clergyman ought to know what is meant and commend it, even though he may suggest sharpening up conscience so as not to imply non-concern for ethics. If a clergyman says men must recognize their sinfulness before salvation is possible, the psychiatrist ought to know what this means, even though cautioning against identification of the fact of sin with a sense of guilt...
Tuckered Tucker. Though Preston Tucker said he had made only 28 cars, he still had $8,446,206 in current assets (against $2,237,402 current liabilities), he told a U.S. district court in Chicago, in a stockholder's suit for receivership. But the biggest listed asset turned out to be $3,649,770 in promissory notes which Tucker dealers had signed to buy franchises. He listed only $1,888,749 in cash and Government bonds left, out of the approximate $20 million he had raised on stock and franchises...