Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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September, 1929: The country was riding high on a tidal wave which was soon to break hard and sweep away the Big Rock Candy Mountain. That was the month the Class of 1933, nearly one thousand strong, came to Cambridge and Harvard College. President Lowell welcomed the Class to the College, and then followed some serious talk by Delmar Leighton ("Choices of Studies for the Freshman Year") and by an assistant professor of History, Charles H. Taylor ("Freshman Course Requirements...
...Plus 2=What? Now that Pilot Brett had the feel of it, we tried some experiments. With the plane refueled, we headed back to the acrobatic area. Brett's usual rear-seat man, ist Lieut. Arthur Brattkus, had prepared a mental-alertness test for me during our coffee break. On the back pages of a scratch pad he had written three elementary problems in arithmetic. These represented a mild foretaste of what a space pilot might have to do in the weightless state. Would my gravity-free brain be clear enough to solve them...
...growth has come in the open-end funds, whose assets total $9.5 billion (see chart). They are so big that some Wall Streeters fear that a wave of redemptions from worried investors might force a market break. But in all the recent sharp market breaks, the funds have bought, not sold, and thus given stability to the market. Recently the funds, thinking the market too high, were cautious about buying; of the 15 largest funds, twelve reduced their percentage of common-stock holdings in the first quarter...
...jets are only part of Qantas' plans. It also wants to break into the lucrative transcontinental U.S. market heretofore restricted to domestic carriers. With one foot in the door through its right to fly its own international passengers across the U.S., it has also asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for the right to carry other international passengers from coast to coast. The right to make such flights, known as cabotage, has been a major argument for years among air carriers, and Qantas' request is bitterly opposed by every U.S. line. If granted, it would open domestic markets...
Hour after hour Joseph lay on his bed, listening to jazz records on his rusty phonograph and sweating his youth away in voluptuous fantasies of the city, where he would "be myself, be free, be cruel and be rich." But whenever he threatened to break out of the web, his mother would bind him tight again with a pernicious tissue of threats. "The day you leave here," she would sob self-pityingly, "I'm going to die!" As for Suzanne, she cleaned up the worms that fell from the diseased roof into the beds, into the food...