Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Eyman retorted that he had not forced Korpa to do anything: "There was no obligation on the young man to accept the grace and clemency which I offered him. If he had not accepted the probation terms, he would have gone to jail. However, in accepting the offer of the court, he undertook to comply with the requirement to regularly attend his church. In my opinion, this was a reasonable requirement . . . I'm not a Catholic, but I would do this whether the boy was a Hindu, a Methodist or a Mormon...
...minuscule production quotas. From the job-short 1930s to 1956, a University of Michigan study found, the efficiency of U.S. construction workers dropped 10% to 20%. Truck drivers often draw eight hours' pay for a 5½-hour trip, simply because the trip once took eight hours. Grace Line needs only ten men on a conveyor, but is forced by the International Longshoremen's Association to hire 21, four of whom do nothing but take turns pressing a button...
...speed of a swallow, the grace...
...found a pair of bronze hands protruding from the dirt four feet below street level. Archaeologists came on the run, uncovered a bronze Apollo, almost perfectly preserved, and worthy of the legendary sculptor Antenor, who lived in the 6th century B.C. The sculpture has much the same severity and grace that mark the bronze Charioteer at Delphi. It is a relic of the greatest moment in Greek art, when the archaic mold, adapted mainly from Egypt, began turning into the tender naturalism of the classical...
...earnings last week showed that 1959's upsurge in profits, so striking in the first quarter, had picked up even greater momentum in the second. From companies across the broad spectrum of U.S. industry-most of them old-line firms showing new vitality-came the heartiest figures to grace many a balance book in years. Items...