Word: dunning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corpse. Along with sales, prices also had begun edging up once more. Dun & Bradstreet's index of wholesale food prices showed the sharpest increase (1.6%) in 17 months. The Government's cost-of-living index was still 11% above its June 1950 level, when the Korean war began. In the face of these signs that inflation was far from dead, neither Republicans nor Democrats in Congress seemed willing to take a chance, in an election year, on killing controls.* This week the Defense Production Act, with its train of OPS, NPA and other business controls, seemed certain...
...help pick additional faculty members (and a new dean to replace retiring Dean Sperry), the Harvard Corporation appointed a board of distinguished Protestant clergymen, including Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun and Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin. Harvard's hope: to make the school a stronghold of ecumenical Christian education among the clergy, a means for correcting what President Conant's committee called "religious illiteracy" among undergraduates...
...Americans who run it call it Beggars' Island. Koje is a rocky, dun-colored dollop, 20 miles southwest of Pusan in the Korea Strait. On this island, in a cluster of barbed-wire compounds, the U.N. keeps its war prisoners-110,000 North Koreans and 17,000 Chinese-plus about 40,000 civilian internees...
...Conference's sixth consecutive Rose Bowl drubbing has led a few West Coast coaches to mutter against bowl games in general, joining the investigating group of college presidents who have already put bowls high on their "evil" list. The president's group, under the American Council of Education, the Dun and Bradstreet of the academic world, will try to force de-emphasis by lowering the academic rating of schools that engage in recruiting practices and in exhibition games...
...interview's end, he picked up his black felt hat, walked easily and firmly, with no trace of prison hobble or shuffle, from the church to the rectory. Outside, he glanced at the 400-year-old, dun-colored church, largest building in the village of 400. A militiaman with red-starred cap dawdled along a village street, the only uniformed person visible in Stepinac's new cell of confinement...