Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thieriot had good evidence that he, Newhall and Caen, and a fired-up city-room staff had done a good job of boosting the Chronicle: in a recession year, the paper gained 1,248,313 lines in advertising, soared 31,029 in circulation to reach a new high...
...young law students at the University of Chicago. Straus-Loeb, as portrayed by Bradford Dillman, is the spoiled-rotten son of a socialite mother. At 18, he is already a vicious little sadist. Steiner-Leopold, as Dean Stockwell interprets him, is a motherless young genius whose IQ is too high to be measured by any known intelligence test-essentially a gentle boy who has been completely mesmerized by the animal magnetism of his evil companion. Straus-Loeb is the superman, Steiner-Leopold the "superior slave" in a private world of post-Nietzschean fantasy and homosexual practice...
...billion for the fourth quarter of 1958, after-tax profits showed a $3 billion jump from the third quarter; undistributed profits, or the money companies still have after taxes, dividends, etc., were up to $9.8 billion, the highest level since the first quarter of boom year 1957. The high profit level, plus the assurance of a fine first-quarter report for 1959, gives U.S. industry plenty of money in the bank to keep the recovery rolling. Many a corporation will be able to dust off the expansion plans shelved during the recession, and once the spending starts, the floodgates...
...Rhine (Charles' nephew), combined style and audacity with grim efficiency. Parliamentarians denounced him as an ingrate; Royalists hailed him as ingenious, and his white dog was popularly ranked "Sergeant-Major-General Boy." Thus the Cavaliers held until the war's end a virtual monopoly of high spirits and colorful loyalty, plus resources of wit, satire and song...
...Civic Symphony on the occasion of its debut in Sanders Theatre last night, he voiced the justifiable pride of a Cantabridgian in this important even for the community. As President Pusey, who followed the Mayor, observed, civic symphonies are spreading throughout the country, and Cambridge, as a "center of high civilization" has been long overdue for one of its own. To everyone's relief and pleasure, the orchestra proved in its first concert to be a very fine one, capable of handling major works in an assured and professional fashion...