Word: pense
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When 25-year-old Patrick Joseph Frawley Jr. went into the ball-point-pen business in 1949, he could not have picked a worse time. The market was flooded with pens; bankers warned against writing checks with them (forgers could literally pick up a transfer of a signature); schoolteachers banned...
While he ran his San Francisco business with one hand, Frawley began to sell ballpoint pens, made by a Los Angeles aircraft-parts manufacturer, with the other. Before long, the manufacturer could not keep up with sales of the inexpensive (97?) pen, which wrote well and did not leak. Frawley...
"The Conseil d'État will unhesitatingly interpret a law newly passed by the National Assembly in the light of decrees or regulations issued by Francis I or Louis XIII, and use the final and authoritative construction thus put upon it to pour back the new wine into the...
They showed "lunatics" lying half-naked in filthy pens, or fighting like starved wolverines when a heartless jailer tossed them a moldy crust. Some inmates were in chains; some were being beaten. More astonishing than the play were the players : housewives and secretaries suffering from involutional melancholia or agitated schizophrenia...
Not since the days of Napoleon has France changed its fundamental educational goals. The secondary schools are still so rigidly academic that only about one in every four children gets into them. Those who do must face the dreaded baccalauréat (bachot) exam to graduate. Many must memorize stacks...