Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with these three men healthy and running, McCurdy still had his problems. Ed Martin, who hasn't had a really outstanding season since his freshman year, was lamed by a sore tendon all fall, while Jim Schlaeppi was simply in poor condition most of the season...
...paintings show the white light and black-clad poor of Spain and Italy with tenderness if not much power. Cubism is perhaps her stumbling block; one can hardly see the people for the planes. But her semi-abstract sculptures come to terms with the wood in witty and sensuous ways. Woman and Child (see cut), hunched forms of a mother and her papoose, seem in a separate world, somewhere between the nature of a tree trunk and that of people. Why did she quit business for art? Says she, elliptically: "I like putting butter on turkeys. I like peeling...
...business recovery. On all but one day last week, stocks climbed to new records, closed the week at 564.68 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, up 10.42 for the week to an alltime record.* The Dow-Jones industrial average, most volatile of the averages, and Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks weeks ago exceeded their alltime highs; last week, at long last, they were followed by a slowpoke: the New York Times combined average of 25 industrial and 25 railroad stocks, which broke through its alltime high set in August 1956. Crowed the Times: "A historic milestone...
...Cary in his book (TIME, Feb. 6. 1950) displayed the Irish talent for tirade in formidable measure, and he revealed a teeming and generous vision of life, a Rabelaisian sense of comedy. To make a straight commercial movie out of such a vital, abundant creation was at best a poor idea, but it has to be said for Britain's Alec Guinness, who wrote the script and plays the principal part, that he has marshaled all of his considerable intelligence, taste and humor to make the best...
...tuitions were doubled, state and local governments could "increase their tuition receipts by $2 to $3 million," and use most of this money for scholarships, "thus helping the genuinely poor, able and well-motivated boy," Harris said...