Word: liquidize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While one is repelled by the charge of the Yale press that their fraternities rest on liquid foundations and by the sinister descriptions of their alumni, it is still necessary to ask why the institutions exist. The answer seems to be that in their college system there is nowhere else for the Yalies to drink and be social. As one New Haven collegian is quoted in his press as saying, "I joined a fraternity because I couldn't fit a bar in my room." Other reasons seem to be prestige, ambition and the desire subsequently join to a secret society...
...babies are like me." The resemblance is more than superficial. Amidst the blooming, buzzing confusion which is an infant's world. Churchill remained the calm eye of the nursery hurricane, demanding a child's secure universe of bath (always at the same temperature), undisturbed nap, and steady liquid diet...
Many a businessman felt that what really should worry the Fed is that credit may be getting too tight too soon. A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia last week found that the nation's banking system is considerably less liquid now than it was at the start of the 1955-57 upsurge; thus banks have less money for loans. The effects of tighter money are already appearing in housing: the Federal Housing Administration reported that hundreds are starting to trim their plans for houses...
Kitses mentioned that another improvement took place when, "accompanied by the flow of liquid refreshment, the cellar was cleaned out and partitioned off into study and television sections...
...with healthy earnings, decided on the family-owned Seeburg Corp., which had annual pretax earnings averaging $2,000,000. The family wanted to sell for $8,000,000 in cash, $2,000,000 in five-year notes. All but $3,300,000, could be covered by Seeburg's liquid assets-but how to raise that? Despite a tight money squeeze, they succeeded in borrowing it, partly from the Seeburgs themselves...