Word: graphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Columnist Broun advertised for a job (TIME, July 31), thereby publicly setting himself up as the No. 1 example of an oldtime newspaperman whose career has followed the conventional graph (reporter to critic to columnist) and who now needs work. There are thousands like him, for the number of U. S. daily newspapers had decreased by 211 in a decade. Time was when a good man could always get a job and the itinerant newspaperman was one of the most colorful figures in the land. He was hard-drinking, amorous, industrious when sober, able whether sober or drunk...
...magazine named as "stockholders, once removed," students in 42 universities which together own 1% of Monsanto and the 25,000,000 policyholders in 72 insurance companies which together own 3%. Tucked away in a graph was the fact that 81% of the company's shares is owned in blocks of 101 or more shares ($102-to-$104 a share last week...
...Uniat Churches, which have been so friendly that the Uniat Primate is also a leader of the Orthodox faithful. The Primate, Count Andrey Sheptytsky, Arch bishop of Lwow, is almost seven feet tall, but paralyzed in arms and legs so that he cannot preach. Instead he makes phono graph records of his pronouncements, ships them throughout the Ukraine...
...results of the examination are revealed to a student in the form of a graph on which his curve is plotted against that of the general average. The results in previous years have shown that a graduate's curve would reach its highest point on that part of the test covering his special field of concentration...
...first half of the 19th Century, when such men as Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, Preacher Theodore Parker and Pundit Bronson Alcott were generating a whole kaleidoscope of intellectual sparks, Boston was in truth the cultural powerhouse of the U.S. Since then Boston's cultural graph has shown, a decline. Her writers and painters, once the most pioneering, are now for the most part complacent. But to the Back Bay Brahmins Boston's past glories are still present, her old-fashioned way of life still sacredly up-to-date...