Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urgent request for bookings. A "high-ranking personality from the Middle East," name top secret, said a voice on the other end of the line, was planning to drop in at Baden-Baden with a few friends and relatives. "He wants," the voice went on, "a large hotel for himself, plus accommodations in other hotels-a total of about 90 beds-by next Tuesday...
...moot because of doctors' skepticism about the vaccine, is up for searching reexamination. Columbia University's Dr. H. McLeod Riggins declares that the U.S. has failed to put into full use "a scientifically proved vaccine" against TB because of "a false sense of security." Reason: the dramatic drop (of 76%) in the TB death rate since "wonder drugs" were found to treat the disease after...
...went to the Times). The revamping job turned the paper into a vamp, neither Times nor tabloid-nor Trib. By then the smallest of Manhattan's seven major dailies, the Herald Tribune earned the additional distinction of being the only morning paper that had a substantial weekday circulation drop: from a 1955 peak of 387,276 to 367,248 this year. And despite such costly come-ons as a handy pocket-size TV supplement (editor: Hy Gardner) and a staff-produced feature magazine, Sunday circulation slipped from 596,308 in early 1956 to 576,488 in 1957; since...
...living. To do so, insurance companies would have to invest in common stocks to benefit from increased dividends in boom times when the cost of living is on the rise. While huge Prudential Insurance Co. plumped for the variable annuity, Metropolitan and others opposed it, arguing that a drop in stock dividends-and a cut in annuity payments -would shake public confidence in insurance. The Securities and Exchange Commission got into the act, contending that it had the power to supervise any such plan, and joined with the National Association of Securities Dealers in a test case to stop...
...Criticism," which he egged on with such devices as the elaborate notes to The Waste Land (since dismissed by him as "bogus scholarship"), he writes: "The method is to take a well-known poem . . . analyze it stanza by stanza and line by line, and extract, squeeze, tease, press every drop of meaning out of it. It might be called the lemon-squeezer school of criticism...