Word: poring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...select the 135,000 volumes they add each year, the library staff must pore over thousands of reports and reviews. "The book trade figures about 12,000 new books are coming out in this country each year," says Metcalf. "There are also 50,000 periodicals and reports, 15,000 publications from the U.S. Government Printing Office, 20,000 to 30,000 each year from the U.N.-many of them only small pamphlets, but somebody has to keep track of them...
...proves once again that a passel of li'l ole mental defectives can be pretty funny if they speak with a Southern drawl. Dim-witted Jack Winters, hero of this first novel, is constable of Walnut Creek, Ark., and a Bedder-which means that his folks were pore white trash who scratched out a living in a dry river bed. But Jack is proud of his gun and his badge; he loves to crank up the siren on the state police car, and his noblest ambition used to be to look like Tom Mix. The Good Families of Walnut...
Potent Arguments. In his $600,000 home on Miami Beach's Biscayne Bay, Wolfson likes to pore over financial statements, find a company that is worth a lot more than the price of its stock. When he does, he goes after it. Montgomery Ward is just that kind of a company. It has a wad of $293 million in cash and Government securities, hoarded up for the depression that Avery is sure will come. This cash reserve is worth $45 a share, while net current assets are worth about $88 a share. The stock this year has sold...
...addition, there are 100 "How To" magazines, and in New York City's public library there are 3,500 how-to books, 250 on cooking alone, both for the gourmet (Escoffier Cook Book) and the not-so-rich and not-so-particular (The Can-Opener Cookbook). Gardeners can pore over Perennials Preferred, Rockeries, Principles of Weed Control, animal lovers over such volumes as How to Tempt a Fish, How to Live with a Cat. There are dozens of books on How to Buy a House and how to make it better. There is even one on How to Make...
First Lady in Pore...