Word: fecund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Failure to refund or pay off any of them would send one or more of its multitudinous subsidiaries toppling into the hands of receivers, might pull down the parent company. A sharp accountant with a salesman's slant, Mr. Hopson proceeded to pull many a rabbit from his fecund hat. Though Wall Street has long ceased to be astonished at the complex securities he concocts, it whooped with appreciation when he offered an issue of "baby bonds" just as the U. S. was selling anti-hoarding "baby bonds" (TIME, March 7). Last week Mr. Hopson surprised skeptical statisticians...
...Staten Island Edison notes for maturing old ones (TIME, June 20), Mr. Hopson has lately been in a tight fix. His company must raise $18,556,000 to meet early bond maturities. Last week he pulled not one but four rabbits from his fecund hat. To his 250,000 security holders he offered $25,000,000 in first mortgage bonds of New Jersey Power & Light Co., A. G. & E. controlled. Each security-owner was expected to buy $100 worth of bonds at a 20% discount on the generous rate of $10 down and $10 monthly. Should subscriptions fail to pour...
...recognize that after nearly five years of uninterrupted, fecund activity you have almost the right to ask a change in order to re-enter the ranks of the Black Shirts. It is not without regret, however, that I fulfill your desires...
Last week all but two members of the present Italian Cabinet read in the papers that their period of uninterrupted fecund activity is about over, prepared to write and receive the usual letters. According to "unofficial" announcements in the Italian press (which were passed by the official censor) II Duce plans to reorganize his Cabinet early next month, dropping everyone except "The Twins...
...bluff and hearty comment and finds a well-considered choosing of words too precious for its taste. Then there in this much-deplored age of sensation, which gives to the gentler diction of Charles Lamb's day something of the flatness of circus lemonade. There are also the over-fecund keys of typewriter and linotype, where flying fingers run riot in a manner unknown to the plodding scribe and compositor of an earlier day. Finally, there are the advertisers, who distill the strongest potations from Mr. Roget's Thesaurus to set off the merits of each new whisk-broom...