Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roomy place in American literature. Years later, when his style had become a fixture and when Hemingway prose occasionally dipped toward banality, the importance of the beginning was sometimes not considered. Much of his output of the '30s seems below par today, but For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) was one of his best, and in The Old Man and the Sea he is better than he ever was, more mature and less mannered. Unlike most American writers, who seemed inexplicably to wither after their triumphs (e.g., Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Her-esheimer, Thomas Wolfe), Ernest Hemingway has continued...
John Donne provided Hemingway with the title of For Whom the Bell Tolls. "No man is an Hand, intire of it selfe," said Donne. Says Hemingway now: "A man both is and is not an island. Sometimes he has to be the strongest island there can be to be a part of the main. [I] am not good at stating metaphysics in a conversation, but I thought Santiago [the Old Man] was never alone because he had his friend and enemy the sea and the things that lived in the sea some of whom he loved and others that...
...most other averages, is that they reflect broad market trends largely in terms of what a few blue chips are doing. Even on the day last week when the Dow-Jones average rose the most, almost half of the 1,271 stocks traded showed losses, and a few, e.g., Bell Aircraft and Studebaker-Packard registered lows for the year. Concluded the Wall Street Journal (which is owned by Dow Jones & Co., Inc.): the meaning of the industrial average "becomes increasingly vague'' except as a short-term indicator of market trends...
...retirement. Forty years ago, no more than 60 American companies shared profits with their employees. Last week some 8,000 profit-sharing plans were on file with the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Each month 200 more are pouring in for approval. Among the recent converts: Chicago's Bell & Howell camera company; Manhattan's ad agency, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne; the National City Bank. A fortnight ago, Eastman Kodak, one of the early profit-sharers, declared a "wage dividend" of $28.5 million for its 53,000 employees, an average bonus for each employee of more than...
...system eliminates all doubt. Henceforth, 10,000 men of Harvard will know for whom the bell tolls...