Word: invest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the advantage of being suitable for kitchens, and of staying sunny on the darkest days. The Good Old Days is a first try at calendar art by a Hollywood scene painter named Paul Detlefsen. It owes something to Currier & Ives, and depends a good deal on memories to invest its neat detail with a breath of life...
...Elected to replay William H. Ruffin, president of Durham, N.C.'s Erwin Mills, Inc., Bill Grede describes himself as a "foundry man or sand rat, as we call it." By selling pots & pans, he worked his way through two years at the University of Wisconsin, then quit to invest in a small foundry. Ever since, he has been running his own business, and now has 1,100 employees. Grede has refused to bargain collectively, and has no union contracts. He has licked the C.I.O. steel workers in strikes, or has headed off organizers by wage boosts, pensions, vacations...
...fine sensibility that accompanied the sense: Prime Minister to General Ismay-"Operations in which large numbers of men may lose their lives ought not to be described by code-words which imply a boastful and overconfident sentiment, such as 'Triumphant,' or, conversely, which are calculated to invest the plan with an air of despondency, such as 'Woe-betide,' 'Massacre,' 'Jumble' ... After all, the world is wide, and intelligent thought will readily supply an unlimited number of well-sounding names which ... do not enable some widow or mother to say that...
...November, it is fashionable to take time off from the job of berating the practitioners of "amateur athletics" in the nation's colleges and make a quick obeisance in the direction of the Harvard-Yale game, where reside values higher than victory. This year, however, even the two invest of the Ivy League schools are knee-deep in re-examination of football, and it would be folly to consider even the Harvard-Yale game apart from all the developments that have occurred since last November...
Copland also said: "The classics have been used to snuff out all liveliness . . . and to set up a religion of music . . . while the public has been afraid to invest in anything not bearing the label of a masterwork...