Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strength of his reputation. In the Graduate Study Room there was an oil painting of him. The face was stern, and one could study it without seeing in the eyes and in the set of the face a great devotion to duty. Beneath the portrait was a shelf of Professor Greg's books...
There was a departmental squabble behind the painting and hanging of the portrait and setting up the shelf of books. Both the portrait and the books had been there about ten years. The then, and still, chairman, Allen Briggs, was what is sometimes called an administrator rather than a scholar. Briggs was a dapper man, with a neat dark mustache. One would not have been surprised to learn he was a vice-president of a stocks and bonds company. For the public, or in addressing incoming graduate students, he stressed scholarly achievement; but in the in-fighting, some...
...Never. They'd rot on the shelf. Got to call them... call them.. Wursts! Call them Wursts...
...that from May to July, manufacturers' sales rose $1.1 billion, to $26.3 billion. New orders to manufacturers also climbed $1.3 billion to $26.3 billion. Meantime, the rate of inventory liquidation slowed considerably, a sign that the day is near when manufacturers and retailers will stop living off the shelf, start replenishing stocks with fresh orders. The book value of manufacturers' inventories dipped $400 million in July, far less than the $700 million drop in June. The figure was down to $49.8 billion...
...born under the sign of French avarice. The girl whines and begs for money, the father accuses her of hoarding what he gives her. One night he dashes barefoot and in his nightgown into the kitchen, climbs a chair and looks at the bar of soap on a high shelf. No doubt about it, "she had cut off a large piece, almost a good third." So now he had her -"like the butter last year, and the shoe polish...