Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American entries alone provided dozens of provocative contrasts. From such hard-to-make and hard-to-take abstractions as David Smith's tortuous steel Cello Player (the work of a onetime war-plant welder), visitors could turn to such literary hardware as Mitzi Solomon's aluminum Family of Man Totem. Among the best of the relatively representational items were Alfeo Faggi's leggy, high-breasted Eva, Koren Der Harootian's Slave, Burr Miller's classic marble nude La Victoire, and William Steig's tiny, self-effacing Elderly...
...Take Thy Rest." Dark-haired, vigorous Conductor Jones had few worries about his soloists (one, Contralto Lilian Knowles, is his wife) or about the great choir before him. Some of the choristers didn't even need scores. Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 82, was a charter member who had been singing in the choir ever since its founder, J. Fred Wolle, came home to Bethlehem 50 years ago from his studies in Munich, determined to dedicate himself and Bethlehem to Bach. Two others had been singing for 47 years, and more than 40 had been in the choir...
...past years, Jones had had the well-drilled Philadelphia Orchestra in front of him; this time, with the Philadelphia on its first tour of Britain, he had first-class musicians, but it was still a pickup band. Even so, with the last quiet but magnificent "Slumber now, and take thy rest," one listener, a Baltimore lawyer who has been trekking to Bethlehem for 20 years, said appreciatively: "A good Friday; but you know, what we come for is the Saturday...
...thought it meant just the opposite. They argued that any rise would scare the bears into "covering" (i.e., buy in the stocks they sold short), thus give the market an added boost. On the other hand, if the market dropped further, the bears would also buy so they could take their profits, thus check the drop...
...higher-priced lines. The Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. brought out a new line of gas ranges to retail 12% to 20% below the market for competing ranges. With department-store sales slipping behind last year's, more industries were facing the problem of whether to cut production or take a chance with ingenious cost-cutting practices. In many cases ingenuity was already paying...