Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed boxing series, which he painted before gentlemen were supposed to profess an interest in pugilism. Another, The Biglen Brothers Turning the Stake, represented his equally famed rowing series. The Artist and His Father Shooting Reed-Birds, attested Eakins' artistic mastery, his lifelong love of the outdoors. The Swimming Hole (see cut) established Eakins as a superb U.S. painter of nudes...
...palette range he was as superb a colorist as Brahms was in music. Even those who spoke, with some justice, of Eakins' lack of interest in design, could scarcely fail to note the monumentally simple success of his portraits, the linked flow of limbs and bodies in The Swimming Hole, the crisp, frugal elation of the 16 horses' legs in The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand...
...complain that he is spending "tax dollars," i.e., cash made on war contracts, which would otherwise be paid in as taxes to the Federal Government. They point out that with Northern Pump probably in the overall 80%-tax bracket, Hawley stands only one-fifth of the loss in dry holes and Uncle Sam foots the bill for the rest. And the 20% he puts into a dry hole can be charged off against taxable income. Even when Hawley strikes oil-and the company's income is boosted by oil sales-he still has his 27½% depletion allowance plus...
...were seven miles up too far. Right up by the enemy. . . . The enemy artillery was whizzing over our heads. Machine guns were firing at us. ... They blowed our kitchen up and it burned, killing one of our cooks and mess sergeant. I layed in the hole for twelve hours. Our artillery shot at us. Our tanks shot at us. ... It was getting dusk and our tanks and artillery finally drove the enemy out of town. So that night we went back about five miles and ate and slept...
...still has an ace in the hole. It can blacklist all U.S. companies with Swedish affiliations, which have some $125,000,000-worth of assets in this country. This would permit the U.S. to cut off transfer of dividends and earnings to Sweden. At week's end, Leo Crowley's FEA was cautiously studying such a move. But the State Department gave the screw a turn. It added 38 more Swedish firms in neutral nations to its blacklist...