Word: jibes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bestselling 1929 novel of World War I, Death of a Hero) claims to have started with an open mind. But in the course of his four years of research, he turned up many claims by Lawrence and his enthusiastic biographers (Lowell Thomas, Robert Graves) that did not seem to jibe with the facts. The chief of these was Lawrence's boast that he had once been offered the post of High Commissioner for Egypt. There was no record of such an offer in writing, and from the testimony of living persons who might know the facts, Aldington decided that...
There was good reason why the indicators did not jibe. Each uses stocks of its own choosing, dropping them when they become inactive or cease to be representative of an industry, and substituting new ones. Of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow-Jones average today, more than one-third were not on the list in 1929. Among the newcomers are such giants as Du Pont, United Aircraft and A.T. & T. Among those dropped, for varying reasons: American Sugar Refining, Mack Truck, North American Corp. As an example of what such omissions and substitutions can mean statistically...
...Finley jibe and sneer...
Over-all there is a tremendous feeling of boisterousness and organized good sprit is that, while it may not jibe with the Cambridge ideal of a pick-up cocktail hour, is quite pleasant. If a weekend of frantic partying is exhausting, and if the excitement pales by Sunday morning, well, there is only one a year and it gets awfully cold and lonely in the woods of New Hampshire
This picture of simple, but civilized, Chinese communism became the subject of Peiping's propaganda, and fared even better in Asia than it did here. Then, during the Korean fighting, there came hazy stories of brutality that did not jibe with the earlier picture...