Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bottom & Peak. As bond prices dropped, the big mystery was: Why did investors fail to take advantage of the bargains? Yields on the Dow-Jones average of 40 bonds rose to 4.30%, close to the yield of 4.53% on the blue-chip stocks. Yet until last week the shift toward bonds was remarkably slow, apparently because many investors were waiting for bond prices to drop even further...
...reaction suited Architect Kirk right to the bottom of his T square. Said he: "It is too much to hope that the building itself can cure, but clearly it can be a symbol of health. I guess my psychiatric friends might say it's a back-to-the-womb feeling. But then that's been basic to all architecture since the comfort of the cave...
...million mark in 1956-an increase of $60 million over 1950. But while total private voluntary gifts exceeded $500 million, said the council's President Wilson Compton, the nation's campuses would still need twice that amount "if they are to meet rock-bottom requirements of maintenance and growth." ¶Resignation of the week: Fred D. Fagg Jr., 60, as president of the University of Southern California. In his ten years at U.S.C., Fagg saw his enrollment nearly triple to 17,500, his campus grow by ten major new buildings, and the university give out almost as many...
...cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol Building in 1793, Dwight Eisenhower last week spread the mortar for the cornerstone of the State Department's new $57.4 million, eight-story-tall, two-block-square headquarters in Washington. For the 8,000-odd staffers now crammed into State's Foggy Bottom headquarters or farmed out among 28 other office buildings, the prospect of at last being in one building by 1960 was welcome. But with an opportunity to build the largest structure in Washington (and second in size among federal buildings only to the Pentagon across the Potomac), the State Department...
...symbolic of his subject. The nautilus builds additional "chambers" on its shell as it matures; so, he felt, Mrs. James "had built another room on the series of rooms that is her life." The painting gives substance to a Wyeth principle: "So many artists tell me they reached the bottom of realism too fast. They reached the depth of their own emotions, but not of the object. What the subject means is the important thing...