Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many financial jobs breadth of thinking is particularly important. Take the case of a loan officer in a rather large bank nearby who must intelligently administer his bank's credits to companies in the following industries: chemical, leather and shoes, finance (consumer lending), lumber and wood products, and building materials. The pressing problems of the company are inseparable from, and often the common denominator of, all the activities of the firm. To administer credit effectively, the banker must be above all a good businessman. He must understand business and the activities back of the figures with which he works...
...judge and jury. As Dean Griswold said in his address to the Massachusetts Bar Association last winter, "There is nothing about the nature of membership in the Senate or the House of Representatives which should give each member a general commission to go through the length and breadth of the land, far from his own state or district, far from the seat of the general government, even on formal delegation to him from his House or one of its committees...
...whimsicality of his reaction to certain unique aspects of Radcliffe give the book an additional charm. McCord's appreciation of the unusual breadth of selection of courses, for instance...
...rivals claim that Ford's large audience is largely inherited from Dragnet, which precedes Ford's 30-minute show. After leading the field since last April, Ford Theater last week was still in front, but only by a hair's breadth: Ford scored 34.7 in the Nielsen ratings, closely followed by NBC's Kraft TV Theater (which comes on after My Little Margie) with...
...fact was that at 74, Europe's greatest clown was tired. As Adrian Wettach, the son of a Swiss watchmaker, he ran away from home at 14 to try his luck in greasepaint. For 60 years he played in circuses and music halls across the length and breadth of Europe and England. On a continent where clowns are universally rated as the top act in any circus, Grock was acclaimed as the greatest of them all. The Queen of Spain once gave premature birth to a royal heir from laughing too hard at his antics. Winston Churchill once urged...