Word: goliath
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Food shortages threaten to make a mockery of the merchandising might of grocery chain stores. At Chicago, last week, at the annual meeting of the National Association of Food Chains, goliath grocers like A. & P., Safeway and Kroger heard that the foundations of their greatness were being undermined-huge turnover shrinking, their small but carefully controlled unit profits thrown out of kilter by price ceilings...
Franklin Roosevelt, who likes a good scrap, refereed a David-&-Goliath fight between two farm leaders last week. At stake was a basic issue in the fight to control inflation...
Perhaps mindful of last fall's stunning upset on the gridiron, another underdog Crimson squad assumed the hero's role in a David and Goliath battle, defeating the highly-touted Big Green of Dartmouth, 49 to 36, to gain its first victory in Ivy League Competition last Saturday...
...seems to us that since the prehistoric days when some insignificant mastodon up and slew in combat the mighty tyrannosaurus rex, the favorite has taken a licking. Look at Goliath, for example. All we know about him is that he was "of great size" and a "champion of the Philistines." Obviously he was a good man, if a bit unpopular withal. And then up steps, that little upstart of a David and overthrows him by means that even a Yaleman wouldn't sink to. Goliath is undoubtedly one of the most abused characters in history, just because his enemies happened...
Married. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, 57, exiled former chief of the Italian Press & Propaganda Bureau, University of Chicago professor of Italian literature, author of Goliath: The March of Fascism (TIME, Sept. 27, 1937); and Elizabeth Veronika Mann, 21, youngest daughter of exiled German Author Thomas Mann; he for the second time, she for the first; in Princeton...