Search Details

Word: schweitzers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...than the portrait of one of nature's fall guys, a well-heeled goof. When readers first meet Henderson, he is (a) rich, (b) not a knight, (c) 55, (d) has nothing to do except raise pigs as a hobby and dream about Sir Wilfred Grenfell and Albert Schweitzer. Suddenly he acquires "a form of madness . . . the pursuit of sanity." He flees his wife and family for the heart of Africa. There, amid parching heat and native stench, his ironic adventures form a highly abstract quest for the meaning of life and death, illusion and reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dun Quixote | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...arrest Harry Schweitzer? Let's make him Secretary of the Treasury. He could balance the budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...wish to nominate Harry Schweitzer for Man of the Year. Anyone smart enough to live in New York City for $71.10 a month and save enough to make $22,600 in the stock market in seven years, can make a million in Texas in 90 days. Come on down, Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Jones & Laughlin stock that Manhattan's Harry Schweitzer bought in 1955 at 38¾ is up to 60¾. His Continental Steel has gone from 33⅜ to 57¼, his Hecht Co. from 29¾ to 42⅝. All in all, the 895 shares in the Schweitzer portfolio were worth $21,000 and represented a handsome $12,000 profit, not to mention Harry's $1,600 savings accounts chunked together from dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How Now, Dow-Jones | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...telling how high, really, penurious Bachelor Harry Schweitzer, 75, could have built the pile if the City of New York had not arrested him last week. Charges: grand and petty larceny, violation of social welfare laws for playing the market over the past seven years out of his $71.10 monthly welfare payment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How Now, Dow-Jones | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | Next