Word: fecundating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Author Louis Paul feels filial to the U. S., but instead of a mammy song he has written a novel which amply vents his feelings: "The country is fecund, heartwarming, uncritical-like a mother. Sordid things there are always there; it is necessary to look about a bit for beauty." Author Paul has looked & looked, seems not quite sure what his view adds up to. He modestly dedicates The Pumpkin Coach to Critic Burton Rascoe, who once avowed: "I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing." But Author Paul does not do himself justice...
...Yaroslavsky is the biggest shot in world atheism. As the walloping chairman of the Soviet League of Militant Godless, Comrade Yaroslavsky pulls the levers of a Juggernaut that rumbles on night and day, crunching Russian churches, chasing priests from their holes, destroying icons and uprooting holy matrimony-but not fecund wedlock...
...city for three months, can collect up to 50% of what he earned when last employed. The average dole for an unemployed single man is seven francs a day (46?). If he is married he can collect four francs more, and 3.50 francs for each child under 16. Fecund Italians do well under this system...
...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...