Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commencement Advocate is not especially noteworthy, the editors have bolstered their magazine with short criticisms on a number of current paper-back books. These are too short to probe deeply, but they are long enough to give one some idea of the books criticized. They are a definite asset. One can only look with amazement at this sudden birth of Advocate energy...
Attlee." As usual, his words were unexciting but got their emphasis from a certain waspishness of voice. Of the Big Four meeting: "We are all glad to see this rather delayed improvement . . ." "Clem," summed up one old party man, "is the greatest asset we have." A pipe-smoking, Christian, suburban respectability is his appeal...
Since more and more women are employed outside the home, the U.S. Steel trustees feel that Radcliffe's plans for advanced professional training of graduates in 35 different fields will be a national asset in terms of skilled personnel...
...struck by a Government claim that he owes $85,442 in income tax on the $134,338 he earned in royalties from the film Sergeant York, based on his life. But the Medal of Honor man who captured 132 German prisoners singlehanded argued that his heroism is a capital asset, claimed the right to pay the straight 26% capital-gains tax rate, just as President Eisenhower did for his World War II memoirs...
Said Oertel : "TIME is believed in - that is its great asset in Germany. Editors use it as an archive and as a guide to the meaning and the significance of news from other parts of the world...