Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midsummer Night's Dream" has often been called a mixture of gross flesh and gossamer. Any production of this comedy has the problem of dealing with these two distinct elements, and it is a problem which the Harvard Dramatic Club only half solves...
...Catholics helped build a new synagogue for the Jews. Then he started a campaign to have the Jews and Protestants chip in for a new Catholic school. Moreover, he has made tolerance plus live-wire journalism pay: the Delta Democrat-Times nets some $75,000 a year on a gross of about...
Fustilarian was the word used by Falstaff to describe Hostess Quickly. It is "a comic formation based on fustilugs, and fustiluggery itself refers to fat and frowsiness, usually feminine. Fustilug [and] fus-tilarian certainly merit rediscovery . . . for application to a gross virago...
...corporate income tax, took such huge bites that even a tremendous increase in sales brought only a small rise in net profits. In the booming chemical industry, for example, Union Carbide & Carbon boosted sales 40% but profits rose only 6%, to $29,178,685. Many another company increased its gross but profits dropped. General Electric, with a new high in sales and pre-tax profits, wound up with a 5% drop in its net (to $34,996,395). International Business Machines did the same: its net slid from $7,669,736 to $7,218,635. And industries such as television...
...corporate merger, it is usually the big company that buys a smaller one. Last week Boston's up & coming Tracerlab, Inc. pulled a switcheroo. Tracerlab, which grossed only $1,700,000 last year, bought the much bigger ($8,000,000 gross) Kelley-Koett Mfg. Co. of Covington, Ky., one of the oldest and biggest U.S. X-ray equipment manufacturers...