Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comers. He designed the Studebaker car, the Lucky Strike package, refrigerators, stoves, radios, lipstick tubes, locomotives, ships, department stores, pens, and thousands of other items. (Almost the only item he refuses to work on is coffins, because "you can't improve on death.") All told, the gross sales of products he designed, or packaged, currently add up to more than...
...five years the Blue has moved deep into the black, become a shipshape, 250-station property, now known as the American Broadcasting Company. Last year it had a gross income of more than $40 million...
...other U.S. motorists have found a bright spot in the monotony of driving, have been an even brighter spot to the Burma-Vita Co., makers of Burma-Shave. Thanks to this form of advertising, the company has doubled and redoubled sales of its brushless cream to a current gross of some $3,000,000 a year...
Equally explicit was the late Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, who wrote: "From the religious side there is constant pressure to keep the spiritual free from what is felt to be the contamination of the material world, which is regarded as in some way gross and unworthy. . . . But this results ... in leaving the physical to go its own way unchecked by the spirit, so that the vaunted spiritual exaltation has its counterpart in bodily immorality. In either case the unity of man's life is broken; the material world, with all man's economic activity, becomes...
Begone, Bulk Purchase, heavy-handed hick, Who still suppose that you can do the Trick. The nimble thousands, dodging here and there, Confused the foes and made the Market fair: But when your tall gross figure comes to town They all at once combine to do you down. Begone, Economist: no more profess To play with Cheeses as you play at Chess. . . . Come, lovely Chaos: come, the Bad Old Days, Before the Wise Men watched about our ways, When Ministers had not enraged the Sun, Not much was Planned but many things were Done...