Word: productive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Masterpiece is hardly a strong enough word to describe this French import. Other Gallie efforts have been praised highly in the last decade, but none of them can possibly match the broad scope and multiple perfections of "Les Enfants," a product of the German Occupation which contains, among other things, a notable expression of the tragedy of spiritual frustration and isolation...
...Inventor. PhotoMetric is the product of more than two years (and $500,000 worth) of research by Henry Booth, boss of Manhattan's Amalgamated Textiles Ltd., one of the biggest U.S. jobbers of fine woolens, and its subsidiary, Bennett, Inc. (eleven U.S. stores). Booth, a grandson of England's famed Salvation Army Founder William Booth, came to the U.S. at 16, worked up in the textile jobbing field. In the depression '30s he merged five jobbers to form Amalgamated, which later became U.S. distributor for Forstmann Woolen Co. and more than 20 top British mills...
Gide published his first book, anonymously and at his own expense, when he was 21. The Notebooks of Andre Walter (1891) was the thinly disguised story of his own neurotic love for his cousin Emmanuele. Novelist-Critic Charles Huysmans promptly labeled it "a product of hideous vulgarities." Few people read it and fewer still bought it; but it admitted Gide to Paris' literary set. It brought him the acquaintance of Maeterlinck, D'Annunzio, Whistler, Gauguin, Rodin and Mallarme...
...survey in question originated a year ago as a by-product of a trip that TIME'S advertising director, Harry Phillips, made to England (A Letter From the Publisher, May 19, 1947). He went there to examine postwar business conditions and to talk to exporters about advertising in TIME Inc.'s overseas editions. He found, to everyone's astonishment, that in all the decades of trading between Britain and the U.S., no real effort had been made by either country to discover the requirements and attitudes of American retail stores toward British goods. In other words...
...long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain black bean...