Word: sharpen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since 1955, Cleveland's M. A. Hanna coal and iron company has had its eye on a South American lode that would make any miner sharpen his pick. The property: Brazil's St. John D'el Rey, which Brazilians romantically labeled the "heart of gold within a breast of iron." Spreading over 100 square miles in Minas Gerais state, some 200 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, the D'el Rey mines produced only gold for 120 years-and in recent times some heavy deficits for the company's British owners. What magnetized Hanna...
TIME was when a new rug on the floor or a bigger office was the infallible sign of a rising executive. Today the management comer is more apt to find himself sent back to school with a pack of pencils and instructions to sharpen his potential. The new corporate fad-or what one executive calls "a fever sweeping industry"-was started to combat the shortage of executives by trying to force-feed talent in the classroom instead of waiting for it to grow naturally in the office. In 1957 alone, industry sent an estimated 300,000 executives back to school...
...initial grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a program to improve coverage of science. Barrett's program, announced last week: a series of fellowships that will give selected newsmen one free year at Columbia (plus $550 cash monthly) to broaden their knowledge and sharpen their reporting of the subject. Limited at first to four or five newsmen a year, the program will be expanded, if successful, to provide ten fellowships annually...
...Crimson has shown glaring weakness on pass defense throughout the first three games, and it is likely that with good weather the Indians will be using the pass frequently. Whether the Crimson wins or loses may well depend on the degree to which Yovicsin has been able to sharpen his defenses during the past week...
...changes in standards of beauty that he chronicles. The mathematical and detached nude of classical Greece decays with change in attitude toward the flesh, into the bulbous and ascetic shapes of medieval art. "The very degradation the body has suffered as a result of Christian morality served to sharpen its erotic impact. The formula of the classical ideal had been more protective than any drapery; whereas the shape of the Gothic body, which suggested that it was normally clothed, gave it the impropriety of a secret." Ergo, a rebirth of interest in the human form as a subject...