Word: periodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer postpone "the problem of growing up." He read Dostoevsky, Proust and Aquinas and explored the defects in his own character. At Christmas time, walking by the shore near Cancale in Brittany, "I was on the point of bumping myself off. This was chronic." He came out of this period of self-examination, he now feels, "much kinder and more tolerant-able to form satisfactory, sensible attachments...
...excitedly as newsboys handing out extras-which was just what many of them were doing. More than 100 in such varied industries as oil, machinery, mining, steel, retail sales, chemicals, distilling-and even playing cards-declared extra dividends in cash or stock. Of some 200 companies reporting for the period ending Sept. 30, only six showed deficits, though some 60 others were down from the same period last year. For most, the combination of higher prices and high production made the quarter the most profitable in corporate history...
...Thanks to rate boosts which were beginning to show their full effects, railroads, notably in the East, were having their best peacetime year since 1929. For the first nine months of the year, the New York Central netted $13.1 million, compared with less than $452,000 in the same period last year. The Baltimore & Ohio was up about 200% (to $16.5 million), the Erie 210% (to $9.7 million). The Pennsylvania, which lost more than $7,000,000 in the first nine months last year, made the best gain: it showed a 1948 profit of $17.5 million...
...Gide story, aimed at grown-up audiences, has so much more integrity and artistry than the run of movies that some of its admirers may be blind to its defects. It is superbly performed; talented and beautiful Mlle. Morgan has a chance to bloom again after an arid period in Hollywood. And the story is drawn slowly out of its characters with a patient indirection that piles up considerable emotional power without ever losing its sensitive touch...
This new biography of Victoria, which is Bolitho's ninth about this period, has nothing of Strachey's amused, amusing manner, nothing of his skepticism and silky grace. Above all, it does not contain a single sentence that even runs a risk of being thought dangerously brilliant. All present or accounted for are the famous, fascinating figures of the great era-Baron Stockmar, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, et al.-and so frigidly correct that they appear to have been hewn from frozen blocks of Birds...