Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music agents, each hopeful that he carries the answer to a song publisher's prayer. "This number is the greatest," one says, or "I gotta song here, it'll fracture 'em." The publishers buy such songs in the hundreds each year, and record-company presses compound the fractures by turning them out with the regularity of automatic cooky cutters. The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court, exhort or contort...
...Compound Interest. In Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., a thief returned 150 pennies and a -32-cal. revolver he had stolen from J. D. Molloy, added a note of explanation: "I tried to take these things but my conscience wouldn't let me, and by the way, I oiled your gun." Siesta. In St. Louis, police awakened Adolph Bohnn by pounding on the door of his loan company, told him that during his snooze a burglar had smashed a front window, set off the burglar alarm, pounded off the handle of the company safe with a hammer and an iron...
...sporadically seeks to solve his problems with bursts of direct action which often merely compound his troubles and confuse subordinates. Many of the President's friends share the concern recently expressed by a Manila editor: "Everybody still wishes Magsaysay well. It is about time he gave the people more than honesty, integrity and the common touch. The government must be uncommonly capable, efficient and effective, too." Most of the men now opposing Magsaysay got behind him originally in the sincere hope that he would bring about a better and a fairer balance of life in the islands. What, then...
...task is every bit as cumbersome as his statutory instructions. As a matter of fact, the better the treasurer, the more volumninous becomes his work, for his investment funds appreciate with compound interest...
...pounds from his stewardship. He acknowledged it, that is, but died in 1793 without ever having paid a cent of it. Hancock's heirs, however, promised restitution and by 1802 had paid off the whole debt plus simple interest; yet the University is still out $526 of compound interest from its unfortunate appointment...