Word: sures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five days Albert Schweitzer wrestled with his conscience. Hutchins, to be sure, was no Goethe scholar, his university no center of Goethe study in the U.S. Moreover, America was far away. But the thought of what the 2,000,000 francs would mean for his patients in Africa clinched his decision. Schweitzer sent his acceptance...
Said one of Wall Street's shrewdest speculators: "If I could find somebody who could tell me a sure way of keeping one-fourth of my fortune, I would cheerfully give him the other three-fourths." Nobody in Wall Street has yet found the "sure way." But in a world of welfare states populated with security-minded people, more investors than ever are engaged in a ceaseless search of their own for security...
Stocky, Russian-born L. B. Mayer, then 39 and an experienced film salesman, was especially sure of one thing: glamorous personalities were the movies' surest box office winners. Not everyone agreed with him, but by the time the screen started talking, L.B.'s star system had made M-G-M the most powerful voice in Hollywood. The studio splurged on giving its films a plushy elegance and a high gloss. If some happened to be mediocre entertainment, they were well insured at the box office with such names as Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan...
...month's end, the new company's initial fund of $10 million should be ready for loans to qualified producers of "A"' films. The conditions: a rotating committee of exhibitors will pass on stories, casts and budgets to make sure that they beat in tune with "the pulse of the public" as felt at the box office. Even if some studios do not need financing, they may get the company's advice free...
...Indo-China, where Surgeon May spent eight years of his life, his native assistant smiled when May postponed lunch to operate on an emergency case. To what end? the assistant asked. The patient was of the coolie class, too starved to live much longer anyway. And who could be sure that death was not better than life? "In these parts," the assistant told him, "we think human life has no value; it will be hard to persuade us that...