Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though the present student body is almost entirely Jewish, Sachar asks no questions about creed, welcomes students strictly on their merits. It is a university with a mission-"Not just another little school," says Sachar, "but a symbol of what the Jewish people want to contribute in the intellectual world...
Feather Beds. The ICC's 6-to-4 decision split the commission itself wide open. Though ex-Chairman J. Haden Alldredge voted for the raise, he warned that the railroads "certainly may be pricing themselves out of the market." He thought that the roads would be smarter to cut their fares and go after more business, and cited the example of the Central of Georgia, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific, which had boosted traffic by doing just that...
Gettysburg & Gainsborough. Though Hiram Parke now does little auctioneering himself, he still has a quick eye for the furtive lapel-clutching, pamphlet-waving, nose-pulling signals that can mean a bid. And he has not lost the ability to keep bidding at the fever pitch that he first showed more than 50 years ago in his first auction, when he sold a $20 gold piece for $100. In his galleries the hammer has swung on such fabled items as the fifth and final manuscript of the Gettysburg Address ($54,000), the Bay Psalm Book, first book published...
Eastman Kodak Co. last week announced a "wage dividend" for its 48,000 employees of $15,500,000, biggest in the 38-year-old history of Eastman's profit-sharing plan (last year's bonus: $13 million). Though Eastman's earnings for the first nine months this year were down about 17% from 1948, it's common, stock dividend was higher ($1.70 v. $1.60 last year). Therefore, the bonus, based on the dividend paid to stockholders, was higher also. Paid to everyone employed before last October, the bonus consists of $25 for every $1,000 earned...
...beautiful and that sacrificed the esoteric for the immediate. Préfète Dufaut's childlike Harbor at Jacmel was as flat, bright and familiar as any postcard, and Wilson Bigaud's self-portrait behind bars had the harshness of a flashbulb photo. Even these, standouts though they were, lacked most of the qualities that critics associate with good painting. Yet, as Poet Rodman suggested in his book, the qualities they did possess were the ones most lacking in modern art and most essential to its future: "Harmony, simplicity, spontaneity...