Word: pouring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...share, amply covered its regular quarterly dividend of 75?. Earnings declined far less from the year-ago level ($115,943,000 while at 89.5% capacity) than most Wall Streeters had expected. The report at long last destroyed Wall Street's old assumption that Big Steel needed to pour at 65% capacity just to break even. Furthermore, it showed that U.S. Steel's second-quarter rate of income from sales, 8.5%, was the highest of any integrated steel producer...
...elect Seaborg has pledged himself to "keep uppermost in.mind the crucial and classical function of a university in society: to foster free inquiry and teaching under the highest possible standards of objective scholarship." But many scientists will still wonder whether one of the world's best chemists should pour himself into the world of university management-which, even at one of the best campuses in the nation, consists largely of parking problems, building plans and ruffled regents...
...fast work: dwellers sometimes complain about the lack of closets or kitchen windows in Niemeyer houses; builders sweat over specifications that often make light of construction problems. At Brasilia the builder of the Palace of the Dawn reported that each V-shaped pillar "took two weeks to frame and pour, another two weeks to face with small stone squares as specified." But, he added: "It turned out very pretty...
...however, sometimes blind to the practical requirements of government. France's present national crisis seems to be one of these occasions. De Gaulle, offering resolution to a country that has been plagued by political pusillanimity for the past twelve years, represents France's best, and probably only, chance to pour life back into a Fourth Republic which has been slowly dying and weakening the stature of the whole nation with its disease...
Highhanded, aging, fabulously rich Claire Zachanassian returns to Gullen, the impoverished European town of her birth, to pour money into its lap-on one condition. Town and townspeople can divide a billion marks if they will kill Anton Schill, the man who in Claire's youth denied that her child was his and made her an outcast and a prostitute. When the town rejects such an offer at the expense of a much esteemed citizen, Claire does not argue; she can afford, she announces, to wait...