Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, said Herbert Hoover to 1,800 U.S. editors and publishers in Manhattan, had drunk too deeply of the "mixed drinks" of three ghosts: "the shade of Karl Marx with his socialism, the shade of Mussolini with his dictated economy, the spook of Lord John Maynard Keynes with his . . . perpetual endowment for bureaucrats. And we have contributed an American ideology of giveaway programs. It might be called the New Generosity. It is not yet a ghost...
Despite the coal strike, the steel companies' first-quarter earnings had held up remarkably well. Though U.S. Steel's profits were off just a shade (from $49.9 million in the 1949 quarter to $49.2 million), its rate of profit on sales had actually risen, from 7.5% to 7.8%. Profits of Bethlehem also dropped (to $25.5 million), but its directors felt confident enough to boost the quarterly dividend from...
...auto-short Korea, nearly everybody walks unless he is in a hurry; in that case he runs. In Boston last week three wiry young Koreans were in a hurry for 26 miles, 385 yds. By running the distance in a shade over 2½ hours, they finished 1-2-3 in the 53rd Boston marathon. In so doing, they outclassed an international field of 131, including last year's winner, Karl Gösta Leandersson of Sweden...
...seemed almost as if the U.S. woman just doesn't care enough. Take a Frenchwoman, going out for the evening. "She will have thought for hours about her entrance. If she is tired, she is simply 'not at home' all day . . . She may take a 'shade bath' (chaise longue, darkened room, eyepads) for two hours . . . Inevitably, a trip to the hairdressers . . . She knows her dress. If it is a line that stands better than it sits, she will spend the evening standing-and standing in a particular posture . . . Say what you will, the effect...
...experts, Bernard Berenson, was instantly reminded, when he first saw them, of "the Early Christian sarcophagi that line the grand staircase of the Lateran Museum in Rome. The same stumpy, neckless bodies, with disproportionately big heads of late antique shape, the same crowding, the same . . . distribution of light and shade...