Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Busch-Reisinger this month there is an exhibition devoted to two such titles. One is romanticism the other its successor, naturalism. I hesitate to say romanticism and naturalism in German art, because there is a good deal more attitude than art here, more description than substance...
...will come to your end either upon the gallows or of a venereal disease," William Gladstone was said to have cried to his great political rival. Retorted Britain's Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: "I should say, Mr. Gladstone, that depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress...
...percentage everyone talks about-and aims at-is no more than 4% unemployed. But now top administration economists say the nation faces a real possibility of 5% to 5½% unemployed as one of the new conditions of the changing economy. They see basic structural changes in the labor picture caused by increased automation, corporate decentralization, labor-force immobility, and the surge of new workers from the postwar baby crop. It is still too early to be certain. Yet the labor market has been relatively stable over the past several months, with only modest improvement, and administration economists...
...grounds, trap tens of millions before they can reproduce. Up to 20% of Bristol Bay red salmon runs in 1957 bore the telltale scars of long, fine-meshed Japanese gill nets, which can be strung to form a solid, ten-mile barrier across the ocean. By using these nets, say U.S. fishermen, the Japanese kill many immature, Alaska-born salmon and violate the intent of a 1953 treaty designed to prevent the Japanese from fishing for native Alaska salmon...
Gorce leaned forward on his chair and with deep feeling corrected Vag: "A dirty black sock. With a hole in it. Some of my friends say life is nothing but a big laughing-bowl but I tell you"--and here he leaped to his feet--"life is a very dirty sock with...