Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occupation of Lebanon and Britain's occupation of Jordan cannot do any harm to Arab nationalism except delay the liberation of these two countries and arouse Arab hatred...
Historian Samuel Eliot Morison ('08) discourses on Leavitt & Peirce cigarettes: "There were no cheap brands except Home Runs, Sweet Caps, and Richmond Straight Cut, which young gentlemen did not smoke. Egyptian Deities, which cost 25 cents for 10, were fashionable; but, owing to a rumor that Shevlin, the Yale football captain, collected a royalty on every package we boycotted them." Acceptable smokes of the day were Turkish Delight, Egyptian Prettiest, Pharaoh's Daughter (Sweet Caporal still survives...
Explorer IV reaches 51° north. As the earth turns inside its orbit, it will pass over most of western Europe, southern Russia (but not Moscow), all of the U.S. and Japan, most of China, all of the tropics and most of the land in the Southern Hemisphere except Antarctica...
Some dollar signs of recovery appeared last week in still another anxiously regarded sector of the U.S. economy: corporate profits. A few hard-goods industries still showed losses; aluminum earnings reflected the profit-cutting effects of a 2?-per-lb. price cut in April. Except for small-car-champion American Motors, Detroit's automakers bumped steadily on through their worst year in a decade. Railroads continued to lose. But many another industry reported itself over the worst of the recession, with improving sales and earnings. Steel earnings climbed along with the operating rate at the mills. Most chemicals also...
...firms, and the Japanese government itself adopted Western-inspired antitrust laws. But zaibatsu, like many another Japanese tradition, proved tougher than reform. Last week the influence and power of the zaibatsu sprawled once more across the length and breadth of Japan, firmly in control of all its major industries except steel...