Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing, some educators deplored the passing of the old essay question ("Discuss the consequences of the Dred Scott decision") in favor of the objective type ("The chief justice in the Dred Scott Case was: 1. John C. Calhoun. 2. Roger B. Taney. 3. William Lloyd Garrison, 4. Salmon P. Chase, 5. Stephen A. Douglas"). The new tests, said the critics, might be able to determine a student's superficial knowledge of a subject, but they gave no indication of whether he could think or organize his material. The critics admitted that the objective questions were economical and easy...
...plot has something to do with Mitchum's search into the past of his late employer who, it appears, was a big-moola blackmailer. Mitchum chases (and is chased) all over Europe before he even digs up this sore-thumb fact, while the blackmail victims-quislings who never quisled because Hitler never got around to invading their countries-earnestly try to bump Mitchum off their vile, traitorous scent. In all, Foreign Intrigue rates as the murkiest black-and-white color film of the year, lacking only a chase through sewers to lend it a more poignant aroma...
...What if our republic were now shattered?" wrote the Rev. M. R. Watkinson to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase on Nov. 13, 1861. "Would not antiquaries of succeeding centuries reason from our past that we were heathen nation?" Secretary Chase's response was the motto, "In God We Trust," which first appeared on the bronz two-cent pieces...
...From old French: the art, act or practise of hunting, the sports of the chase...
...hardheaded businessmen, Territory Rice's plans might sound overoptimistic. U.S. ricemen call the 2? per Ib. figure "unrealistic," strongly doubt that Chase can grow, mill and ship rice for anything like that price, also point out that there is no world rice shortage; many rice-exporting nations have actually had surpluses since 1954. Nevertheless, Chase & Co. are convinced that there is an enormous, untapped market for rice in such lands as India, Ceylon, Malaya, Borneo, Indonesia, Japan, even China. While there may be a technical surplus, shipping costs from many exporting nations are so high that millions of consumers...