Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernest Hemingway remarked in Death in the Afternoon, "If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows . . . The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing." In Hemingway's "refreshing" Paris Review interview [Aug. 11], he remarked, "I always write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything...
...unfettered fancy of Jules Verne never conjured up such a monstrous metallic whale. Verne's fictional Naiitilus, 232 ft. long, could have nestled snugly in the belly of Triton, the eighth nuclear-powered submarine to join the U.S. fleet, scheduled for launching this week in the Thames River at Groton, Conn...
MONEY-LOSING PABST Brewing Co. (sales: 2.9 million bbl.) will jump from eighth place among U.S. brewers to third or fourth by picking up profitable Blatz Brewing Co. from Schenley Industries, Inc. for $14.5 million and 200,000 shares of Pabst (price: about $10 a share). Schenley also gets warrants to buy 350,000 shares of Pabst for $10 to $12.50 until mid-1966, may thus one day become biggest Pabst shareholder...
...eighth grader in a questionnaire: 'Do you think your parents are too strict? Or do you think your parents are too lenient? Give the reasons why.' . . . Frankly, I don't think it's anybody's business how we handle our children; especially, it is not for our 13-year-old daughter to sit down and ponder and write about her parents' at-home techniques. Suppose she decides we are entirely too strict. Does she call us into the living room for a friendly but constructive chat, or does she discuss us with her teacher...
...Eighth Sea. The Great Lakes, long one of the world's busiest waterways, will grow even busier when deep-draft ships can steam directly from the ocean lanes into the ports of Toronto, Cleveland and Chicago in what trade promoters like to call the Eighth Sea, the Fourth Coast, the North American Mediterranean. The main payloads on the old 14-ft. canals - iron ore upstream from Labrador and wheat downstream to Montreal-will fill the holds of probably nine-tenths of the ships on the new canal. Seaway planners forecast a traffic load of 25 million tons...