Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poet Charles Baudelaire had eventually come to Delacroix' defense with the simple assertion that, whether or not such a horse ever existed, the painter was perfectly justified in inventing it. Even with such a shield-bearer, Delacroix lost the battle. When he died in 1863, almost everyone still agreed that his rose horse was awful...
Only about one out of ten Americans has ever gone to college, but almost all of them have ideas on the subject. Last week FORTUNE gave its summary of their views. With Pollster Elmo Roper, and an advisory board of educators, it had just completed a nationwide survey probing into everything from costs to Communism and coeducation...
...Federal Reserve Board hauled down a storm signal last week. Ever since last November its production index, one of the barometers of U.S. business, had been skittering down. It had dropped 33 points to 162 in July, indicating a 17% fall in overall U.S. production. Last week FRB reckoned that production was bouncing up again and that the index for August had risen, probably back to the June level...
...Modern church scholars now question whether the Venerable Bede, an 8th Century Benedictine monk of St. Paul's monastery at Jarrow, England, ever made any such trips. Wrote Bede: "I have spent the whole of my life within that monastery...
Only ten years ago, he said, when the national income was $70 billion, people thought it fantastic to talk of its ever reaching $125 billion. "Now it has exceeded $200 billion. I don't think President Truman's goal of a $300 billion national income is fantastic at all, provided we maintain the American system about the way it is today. If we get farther over on the side of a planned economy, or socialism, I don't think...