Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brusque little essay on himself, published in a Soviet magazine in 1926, he said: "For me, a picture is never either an end or an achievement, but rather a happy chance and an experience." Max Jacob once said: "He saves himself by being an acrobat...
...ancient sport of bearbaiting consisted of setting dogs on a chained bruin. For the last five years Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s President Wendell Willkie, who looks rather like an amiable grizzly, has been chained by the competition of Federal utility projects and baited by the TVA pack of David Lilienthal...
With this issue TIME begins publication of a weekly Index of Business Conditions. Different in objective from the indexes most businessmen know, TIME's index will report on the financial soundness, rather than the volume, of U. S. business...
TIME'S Index competes with none of these standard indexes but seeks rather to appraise the factors underlying the business activity they record. This is done by analyzing the weekly Federal Reserve Board banking figures just as an accountant would analyze a corporation statement. Prime clues to a corporation's intrinsic soundness are such financial factors as its working capital position, its sales to inventory ratio, the quality of its so-called assets. The soundness of U. S. business as a whole is similarly reflected in the nation's banking figures...
Fidelity's president, 68-year-old Carmi Alderman Thompson, onetime Treasurer of the U. S. (1912-13), protested bitterly. But rather than go through lengthy litigation on the matter, he agreed to a permanent injunction terminating all the alleged violations of SEC regulations. This quieted SEC but brought a court petition from nine Fidelity shareholders asking that it be put into receivership for insolvency. While Fidelity voluntarily ceased selling certificates and making payments, the case dragged through several postponements in Federal District Court of Wheeling, W. Va., headquarters of the company...