Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, where snobbery is by brains and not by blood, the Aga Khan IV will be just another student, or, as young Stevenson wrote, just " 'K' as we soon came to call Karim." Indeed, the Harvard Yard has seen many princes come and go, without fuss, sometimes even without remembering them. In 1912 Prince Jaisinh Rao, son of the Gaekwar of Baroda, got a Harvard bachelor's degree, and in 1928 Prince Somdet Chao Fa Mahidol won his M.D. from the Harvard medical school. It was while the prince was a student at Harvard that...
...certain share of the auto market-say, less than 50%? He bristled: "Nothing sets me off so much as the suggestions that we ought to tell our people that there are limits on the effort they should make. Nothing could pull a corporation down faster. I have never seen us with a percentage of the industry that we could not be proud...
...charge that also makes him particularly angry is that the recession was brought on by overexpanded credit selling of cars in 1955. "I think there was a coinciding then of two factors," he said. "The economic boom coincided with a freshness and newness of car models not seen for a long time. You had the panorama windshield and other improvements. The dealers got excited about the product. In their excitement they may have overtraded. But the fundamental fact was the business excitement...
...attack. Gradually, Toni moves into a limbo beyond sanity, and begins to wonder if in some way she had not asked for what happened. At length, her puzzled and angered parents seem to join the enemy, and Toni, trying to play the role she has been assigned, is last seen in a Pullman sleeper, giving herself to a salesman who has been kind...
...plagued with brilliance, and swollen with ambition." It was the era of Swift, Defoe, Newton, Wren, Pope -but it was equally an era of savage religious fanaticism, corruption and shameless nepotism (men, said Sarah, anticipating William Gilbert's Sir Joseph Porter, came "to be Admirals without ever having seen water but in a basin...