Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individual, but "not at the expense of rejection" by the group. He is tolerant, "perhaps too much so, feeling that everyone is entitled to his opinion and even that one opinion is probably as valid as another." He is convinced that what he lives in is not the best of all possible worlds, but he has little belief that by joining political groups he can change matters. Like Candide, he chooses to cultivate his own garden...
...became one of the first in the U.S. to adopt a policy of admitting Negroes, and in 1841 became the first coeducational college to grant bachelors' degrees to women; its football team beat Ohio State as recently as 1921. An impressive number of educational observers call Oberlin the best coeducational college in the country, and there is much to support its right to top rank...
September private housing starts, at 108,000, lifted the seasonally adjusted rate to 1,220,000, making last month the homebuilders' best September since 1955. Counting 10,000 public housing starts, it was the residential construction industry's best all-round September since 1950. Freight carloadings continued their five-week climb, rising 9,122 in the week to a new 1958 high of 686,138. Estimated steel production last week pushed to 73.6% of capacity, up from 71.6% during the week before...
Campbell Soup Co. stockholders also got good news. In the company year just ended, Campbell for the first time pushed sales over the half-billion mark, earned a record $31,530,460 v. $29,949,148 the year before, Minneapolis-Honeywell (regulators) had the best third-quarter in its history in both sales and earnings. It earned $5,847,624 v. $4,143,615 for the July-September period of 1957. Even where business has been worst, in the railroads, there was good news. Pennsylvania Railroad, operating in the red for most of this year, reported that in September...
There are two kinds of authors - those who write better than they plot and those who plot better than they write. With his 22nd novel, Veteran Nevil Shute again proves himself one of the best practitioners of Group 2. Shute's surefire system is to take some typical or moving theme -nuclear fallout in On the Beach, race prejudice in The Chequer Board, homeless children in Pied Piper. He weaves in plenty of stirring incidents and peoples his pages with strongly sympathetic, highly moral characters who land deep in a pit of trouble in the first chapter, are often...