Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most U. S. ears, Chinese music is at best incomprehensible, at worst a painful noise. To Chinese ears and minds it is not only pleasant but instructive. Philosopher K'ung Fu-tze (Confucius), himself a ch'in (zither) player of no mean order, considered music one of the six fundamental factors in education. In China's great days, music was a required subject for budding administrators. Hundreds of learned books were written about...
...rest of the week, while the stables were filled to capacity, a comparative handful of customers rattled around in Gulfstream's big steel grand stand. Young Jack Horning, who had sunk $1.400,000 in the venture, wondered if the racing commission's first thought had not been best. It was. After four days Gulfstream Park closed. But not for good, insisted Owner Horning...
...speedily accepted by Wendell Willkie. Including cash and odds & ends, the deal netted C. & S. about $80,000,000, a figure it can increase by selling Tennessee Electric's water, ice and transportation properties, which TVA did not want. By & large the settlement was the best news the utility industry has had in years, gave the most genuine promise yet that utility baiting is nearly over...
Next step was for statisticians to compile and average these fragments, thus produce what are called general indexes of business. Probably best known of all such composite indexes is the Federal Reserve Board's 20-year Index of Industrial Production, a weighted monthly measure of the quantity of production in some 40 industries. By the time these data are collected and the index calculated, the information is several weeks out of date-and the F. R. B. index is at its best in answering the question, "How was business last month...
...months after publication Wheat and Soldiers had become Japan's most spectacular best-seller (almost 5,000,000 copies...