Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last, and perhaps the richest opportunity offered by the retelling of history is that of exploring and trying to uncover the characters of persons whose names have been only that. Here too, Prokosch has fallen far short of what might have been done. We see his figures and hear them, but on the few occasions we are allowed into any of their minds it is only to see briefly what runs on the surface of their thought...
...major planet from a solar system. Nothing will be the same for any of us, near or far, from now on. There is no disguising that the death of Robert Sherwood is a heavy misfortune for us and for our times. We wish the dice could have fallen the other way. It was a better world when we had him with...
...make the two faces-form and content-merge into one. So did Rembrandt and every other great painter. But artists who try to get around the problem by sacrificing form to content (like the academicians) or content to form (like the most extreme of the moderns) have always fallen flat between...
...former customers, said O'Mahoney, G.M. was simultaneously providing itself with a "captive market" and depriving competitors of a customer. But Euclid's former President Raymond Armington (who now runs Euclid as a G.M. unit) explained that his family-owned company, short of money for diversification, had fallen into "a very vulnerable position" to resist big competitors. "It would be a fine thing," said Armington, "if small family companies like Euclid could continue to stay small and independent. The fact remains that Euclid has just gone into a market which required large finances, resources and facilities...
Actually, the scramble for blue chips, which are the stocks chiefly used in the averages that measure the market, has made the overall market look higher than it is. Many lesser-known stocks have had only a modest rise and many have even fallen. Last week, 38 stocks were at their lows for the year, and others were from 10% to 30% below their bull-market highs...