Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state would cast about for allies, and finding Soviet Russia eager to expand its sphere of influence, would accept Russian economic and military aid. With this rapprochement between Israel and the Soviet completed, American and British statesmen could congratulate themselves on moving their enemy some 800 miles closer to the Suez Canal...
...Happy Few. When the long night was over, all but a few red-eyed newsmen were red-faced too. The New York Star's Jennings Perry could point with pride to an almost-right October column titled "It's Closer Than You Think." In the small Garden City (Kans.) Telegram (circ. 5,238), Columnist (and publisher) Gervais F. Reed had piped that Dewey would be upset. And on Oct. 25 the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier (circ. 4,720) had said that, thanks to a divine power, the President would be "sustained in office." (The publisher's wife...
...tell the whole story. Because its depreciation reserves "were not sufficient to cover the cost" of replacing property at current high prices, the company had put aside an extra $13.5 million. Without this set aside, the profit increase over 1947's third quarter would have been closer to 70%. Similarly, high costs were forcing many another big or growing company to apply more profits to reserves (even though the net working capital of U.S. corporations, as reported by SEC last week, reached a record high of $63.9 billion at the end of the second quarter...
...South do draw a line. To you Northerners, it may seem closer to the solicitude of the master for his slave. By correction, it is solicitude of the employer for the employee...
Thus, the point we're driving at. Neither of the two teams can conceivably equal their prototypes. But either of the two teams can get closer to a carbon copy of the original. Therefore, somebody is going to lose, and somebody is going to gain tomorrow...