Word: shiniest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chairman Joseph Chamberlain Wilson introduced one of history's most profitable single products-the Xerox 914 office copier-the company's sales have increased 18-fold (to last year's $701 million), its profits have grown 37 times (to $97 million), and its stock, long the shiniest of the glamour issues, has increased in value 50 times to the latest close...
...alone. The $875,000 establishment, built three years ago by an enterprising female real estate speculator, is the biggest, shiniest and most antiseptic example of a modern German variation of organized sex: the hostel of prostitution...
...used in a Philip pine murder and a rapidly expanding reputation as one of the busiest young legal scholars in the business. Manning's former boss, Yale Law Dean Eugene V. Rostow, had already given warning of the prodigy he was sending west: "Manning is one of the shiniest fish ever to come out of the sea. He has the drive, charm and quickness to do anything...
Many of those who have rented apartments for as much as $100 a room and up in Manhattan's shiniest new apartment buildings have gained in gadgets-built-in air conditioning, modern kitchens, washers and dryers-but they have lost elsewhere. Walls are often paper-thin, floors sag, fireplaces are nonexistent, ceilings low and rents high...
...rich boy, born with a silver cash register in his hand, who rang up No Sale with every transaction in life. Like a busy householder trundling down the aisles of the A.& P. on a Saturday afternoon, he wheeled the sheeniest photographers' models through the aisles of the shiniest cafes and the columns of the gossipiest peepholers. He exhibited no head for business, no great ambition to further the family fortunes, no inclination to develop his intellect beyond the requirements of a bachelor's degree at Harvard. He was, in short, a jaded neon scion, sputtering...