Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 200 years-Daniel Defoe's The Life & Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. So lifelike has this novel seemed to generations that Virginia Woolf spoke for many when she said: "To have been told that Robinson Crusoe was the work of a man with a pen in his hand would either have disturbed us unpleasantly or meant nothing...
When scholarly, kewpie-shaped Geoffrey Crowther took over as editor of the London Economist in 1938, its circulation was a low 10,000 and its influence on British political life was even lower. Under Crowther's sure hand and facile pen, Economist circulation soared to 50,640, and it became Britain's most influential periodical. Nine of every ten Britons who have a hand in major policies read it. About two years ago, Crowther began to spend less time at the Economist, more with his private business (he is a director of five companies-insurance, hotels, etc.). Last...
Cloete's overall conclusions come as a shock, for there has been nothing quite so blunt said about Africa in years: "The black man hates the white . . . The African, once he can read and write, will seldom pick up anything dirtier than a fountain pen or heavier than a pencil. He is evolved, an intellectual ..." These half-educated Africans fall easily for Communist propaganda. Africa therefore must be bound to the West to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Communist East. Any idea of holding the African down permanently, as South Africa is trying...
...months when no bonus was earned. The rest of the melon-made up of increased value through productivity savings-was split; labor got a whopping 75%, management 25%. The first month's bonus, paid in September 1954, amounted to $43,199, a 13.8% wage increase. In January, the pen and pencil industry's seasonal low point, the workers failed to earn a bonus, but it was the only month they missed (payments from the reserve pool are made only at year's end). They earned a peak 27.1% over their wages in September...
Under Costain's pen, the tontine loses all drama and suspense, becomes simply a century-long marathon dance of unreal, Victorian marionettes...