Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, the spread of color has been swift. The Milwaukee Journal, which ran only 346,867 lines of run-of-press color ads in 1946, carried 2,400,344 last year. The number of U.S. dailies using run-of-press color has increased 25% since 1956. Color now appears in more than 800 U.S. dailies. Even small-circulation papers are taking on hue: last year only four papers outranked the Midland, Texas Reporter-Telegram (circ. 17,650) in the use of color advertising...
DRAWINGS are to paintings what letters are to public declarations, or diaries to autobiographies, or songs to symphonies. Michelangelo called drawing the basis of almost all knowledge, believing that only the outline, on paper or in mind, can make meanings clear. Master drawings merge swift emotion with analysis. They are both personal and sharp...
...with the basic premise that fares must be reduced to make the big jets pay off. As the British Comets and U.S. Boeing 707s complete their first full year of operation, the planes are proving far more efficient than most airlines expected. The lines first thought that one big, swift jet would do the work of two conventional planes; the ratio is closer to one-to-three. So far, with only a relatively few jets in operation, the new planes are justifying their $5,500,000 price tag and then some. Pan American reports more than 90% load factors...
...swift upheaval swelling of itself...
...stick to the man-made nature spots of parks and reserves. Through the asphalt of a parking lot, Kieran has seen emerge the fragile but persistent mustard plant. The most merciless predator of Wall Street is neither bull nor bear, but the peregrine falcon; the swift diving bird of medieval romance roosts in the towers of office buildings and, with pigeons as prey, makes many a killing in the street. Once, covering a football game at Columbia's Baker Field, Kieran spotted hawks high in the sky; keeping his glasses alternately on the sky and on the field...