Word: soaringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paradoxically, while he sketched rapidly, Delacroix spent eight months in preliminary studies for a single painting, The Massacre at Scio. In many ways, he approached painting itself as a great performer approaches music; he believed that only endless practice prepares the artist for the grand performance when he must soar above pedestrian problems of technique. He was in continual revolt against the neoclassic manner that Ingres had inherited from Napoleon's court painter. David. To find a counterbalance, Delacroix went back to Rubens' tumultuous, baroque style. A cold, diffident man in private life, he drew his inspiration from...
Even if a new and expanded Housing office were set up, the result would be at best an incomplete solution to the real problem: the lack of inexpensive housing for married students. At present, rents around the Square often soar above $100 per month, and some students are forced to live as far away as Wellesley. The long-term and most obvious answer is for the University to build a large-scale housing development. The capacity enrollment in the present graduate center and the long waiting lists for the Harvard projects surely show that students will gladly use University housing...
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...Real income per capita will soar 30%. The average American will have an additional $370 to spend on goods and services...
...flourish, the National Industrial Conference Board reported what businessmen thought about the rest of the year. Of the 131 major manufacturers in its survey, most thought that the record levels of employment (65 million) and gross national product ($385 billion) would hold up. Sales, production and capital expenditures might soar even higher. Half predicted that second-half profits would be even better than the year's first half, and more than three-fourths predicted that 1955 earnings before taxes would easily surpass 1954's. Said the N.I.C.B.: "Business in the remainder of 1955 will be just as good...