Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious to know how many TIME readers, while digesting (no humor intended) the Cornell report on Cannibalism and English Columnist Nat Gubbins' subsequent play [TIME, Jan. 19], were struck by its remarkable similarity in concept to Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal, a satire written over two centuries ago and incited by the starving conditions in Ireland at that time...
...Dean Swift went a step further than Nat Gubbins: "Those who are more thrifty . . . may flay the carcass [of a small child]; the skin of which, artificially dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen...
Might & Rights. But those who have played chess with him know that Abdullah, who plays well, likes swift moves, gets bored if the game lasts too long. What moves, wondered rival Arab leaders, was the wily brain planning to make in neighboring Palestine? Traditionally the bad boy of Arab politicians, Abdullah has never made any secret of his ambition to expand his holdings, at the expense of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, or of all four of those states...
...Week's 1947 Price- Closing Earning Earnings Stock Price per Share Ratio Cudaby $12⅛ $ 4.32 2.7 Armour 13⅜ 4.85 2.8 Swift 36 5.70 6.3 J. P. Stevens 30½ 8.24 3.5 Botany Mills 22 16.50 1.3 Cuban-American Sugar 13¾ 6.13 2.3 Cuban-Atlantic Sugar...
Thus the world had one king less and one "people's republic" more-though the people had nothing to do with it. Nor was Michael's abdication, as many a U.S. and British sob sister declared, the climax of a lightning-swift and star-crossed romance. The Communists had decided to get rid of Michael long before he met his wistful, willowy Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...