Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loughborough lowbrows were less impressed with Skegness, and Alfred Warbis, father of the painter, shared their opinion that it was not much. A commercial artist by trade, the senior Warbis had two academic pictures in the show himself, was surprised to find them somewhat eclipsed by his son's work. Skegness, said Alfred Warbis, was "horrible-he's got the boats upside down, and he couldn't even sign his name; he had to print...
...that the religion of tomorrow would be "a form of Christianity." But there would be significant differences. At present "in most European countries the Christian church finds itself allied with the landlords, capitalists and the prosperous bourgeoisie. The alliance is unlikely to be permanent, and when it ceases, a much-modified communism, supported by Christian sympathy, might easily emerge...
Professor Kidd is a sharp-beaked little man with a shiny bald pate, who came to the Berkeley campus in 1905 and has been teaching there ever since. In that time no student who was as much as 30 seconds late has ever made his way into one of his lectures; those who tried it wish they had saved themselves the tongue-lashing. On the outside, Captain Kidd was a mild enough man, quick with advice or even a small loan for a student who needed it. But inside his classroom, peering out from under his green eyeshade...
Into Chicago's Congress Hotel one night last week trooped some 200 members of the Greater Chicago Used Car Dealers Association. They were a gloomy lot. Their sales had dropped steadily since autumn; with plenty of new cars around, used-car prices had plummeted as much as one-third since last June. The dealers had hoped that the warm weather would give their business its usual seasonal upswing...
...plants which made the oil that drove the dedication train will turn out about 400 gallons a day-at least ten times as much as has been produced in any of the 15-odd smaller pilot plants so far built by Government and industry. But it was still far short of the 10,000-gallon daily production of a full-sized commercial plant on the scale of those that powered Germany's Luftwaffe during World...