Word: snaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once upon a time, Brer B'ar was induced to take Brer Rabbit's place in a snare by the promise that he would thus make $1 a minute. Last week, U.S. corporations had Brer B'ar outclassed-and their earnings had almost reached the realm of fable. They were making $33,000 a minute. The Department of Commerce estimated that for the first six months, profits were at an annual rate of $29 billion before taxes, up $8 billion from last year and $4.5 billion above 1943's previous alltime high. Estimated profit after taxes...
...other men, and its true name is mores, which are transient. And even if, like the Ten Commandments, an ethical code has a religious origin, but is not newly illuminated for each generation by fresh drafts of religion, then its followers are trapped in what Santayana calls "the snare of moralism, that destroys the sweetness of human affections by stretching them on the rack of infinity...
...substantial decline in the stockmarket" which took place while the merger details were being arranged. They might have been more specific without raising any eyebrows. In less than a year, Convair's stock had slipped from a high of 33⅝ to 16¼ points a snare, Lockheed's from 45¼ to 18. The declines simply wiped out the differential on which all the negotiations were based...
...other encounters at Andover Saturday, proved disastrous for the '50 men. In their first meet of the season, trackmen managed to snare only four firsts from speedy Andover sprinters, who came off with 53 to 37 honors. The grapplers lost 13 to 21, with victories materializing in only the three heavyweight matches...
Desperation was evidently a necessity for the birdmen after the mysterious materializations of their revered relic in Boston Thursday night. Despite elaborate attempts to snare their beast, the Poonsters got no more than a glimpse of Thresky during the evening...