Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this accomplishment Cambridge has something in common with this team over which to rejoice in that their first baseman Edward Waitkus is a native born product of Cambridge sand-lots...
Westerners are apt to prefer the lively grace of Greek art to the detachment and restraint of the Egyptian, but some Greeks preferred the Nile product. "Long ago," wrote Plato in the Laws, the Egyptians recognized that "their young citizens must be habituated to forms and strains of virtue. These they fixed, and exhibited the patterns of them in their temples; and no ... artist is allowed to innovate upon them . . ." Plato exaggerated...
...looking for a product that can be made for a dime, sold for a dollar, and is habit forming...
Furthermore, the prospect was that tax receipts would continue to increase, even under current rates. Washington's economists have long estimated that every $10 billion increase in the gross national product results in slightly more than a $2 billion increase in Treasury's tax revenues. In a year, the gross national product has soared $14.7 billion (to a rate of $270 billion annually), enough to add nearly $3 billion to the Treasury's purse. Under the new tax law the increase will be even faster. If the gross national product keeps climbing-and there is no reason...
...seasoned combat unit has at some time, or many times, experienced, the one where the odds are too great. Brave Company ends with such an attack, and Wilson's description of it can stand as a document. Writers of realistic war novels, most of whose realism is the product of imagination, can find out what is missing from their books by reading Brave Company...