Word: top
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...top job no longer called merely-or mainly-for a railroad operating man. Canada's most imposing example of government-operated business had become too big for that. Since C.N.R. was formed in 1923 out of the ruins of five separate lines, it has grown into a $2.4 billion empire which operates 24,178 miles of main track, twelve hotels, three steamship lines, an airline (TransCanada) and a nationwide telegraph service. It has become Canada's biggest employer (some 111,000). In recent years, C.N.R. has earned money on its operations, but, except for the war years...
Today Duke has the 14th largest university library in the U.S., the second biggest university hospital in the South, a first-rate university school of forestry, and law and divinity schools that are rapidly moving into top rank...
...took the school a while to outgrow the gibe. But the Duke of President Edens had much to boast of besides its millions. In the past decade, it had doubled in size (to 5,211 students), and as enrollments swelled, standards had been raised to keep out all but top-ranking applicants. World War II finally eliminated the flashy roadster; the veteran drove out the playboy...
...wants to make Duke's graduate schools stronger still. "Our intellectual resources in the South," says he, "exceed all other resources. Yet none of these resources has been more neglected at the highest level." Founder Duke had wanted his university to be one of the nation's top producers of "preachers, teachers, lawyers and physicians, because these . . . can do most to uplift mankind." President Edens will be working on that...
...portraits. Lester Bentley's George Wyckoff Jr., a straightforward picture of a boy whittling, looked like a good bet to win the exhibition's popularity prize. Charles Hopkinson's carefully constructed Double Portrait of a mother and daughter showed the dean of U.S. portraitists at the top of his form. At 80, Hopkinson is more than ever concerned with creating an illusion M>f reality on canvas. "Things are really there," he explains, with a diffident wave of his hand, "so why shouldn't one try to capture the thereness of them...