Word: top
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come out on top financially last year, the parent University had to eat into previously built-up accounts to help balance the books of 18 departments which lost money in 1948-1949. Some of these departments had previous balances of their own with which to write off their debts, but in the other cases the University had to come to the rescue. As a result of continued resort to this expedient over the past few years, University reserves today are less than a third of what they were...
...top prizes, awarded by a conservative, three-man jury, went to expressionists, i.e., people who paint what they feel instead of what they see. Philip Evergood, 47, took second prize with a vaguely political parody of a mythological theme: Leda in High Places. Leda and the swan (which Evergood intended to represent "nature" and "man's ideals") were elegantly drawn and painted to shine like new snow, but the picture fell apart at the top and degenerated into cartooning at the bottom. Leda's just-hatched twins were cast as symbols of race-hatred. The prize they fought...
...tons of raisin grapes. To the same buyers, the growers will be permitted to sell another 63,000 tons if they can be absorbed at close to $130 a ton. The Government will have to pay for the surplus-estimated at 100,000 tons-at a top of $80 a ton, the bulk of which will probably go for pig-feed at $30 or less a ton. The Department knows that the cure is to rip up the excess vines, but it has yet to screw up its courage to force the raisin growers to do that...
...trouble before (in 1946 they lost ?474,777), but those were the hopeful days when Rank was talking of making 60 pictures a year and beating Hollywood at its own game of mass production. How badly he had flopped was shown by the prices of stocks in his two top companies, both at their eight-year lows. Gaumont-British common, which hit a high of 18s. last year, was down to 4s. 6d. last week. Odeon Theatres common, which had been up to 453., was down to 8. Commented the London Evening Standard: "In view of the gloomy estimates...
...Generous Biographer Steegmuller speaks of De Maupassant's stories in the same breath with Chekhov's, but many readers will feel that De Maupassant never achieved the warm, quiet sympathy and seriousness of Chekhov. Without those qualities De Maupassant takes his own special niche, close to the top...