Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Street this easy sale, in a period when stock flotation had never been so difficult, produced two reactions. Financial World dubbed Philip Morris "a coming blue chip." Cynical tobacco stock specialists, however, were still unconvinced. Noting that more than two-thirds of Philip Morris sales are urban, they wondered whether, with its sophisticated slant, it would ever have truly national appeal. And they shook gloomy heads over the action of New York City (where Philip Morris sells one-fifth of its smokes) in imposing a 1? a package cigaret tax two months ago. Other cigaret companies could pass this...
...this depopulated planet would hold her for a second in its gleam, remembering her form and mind and strength that had once been here, in one small corner of the globe." Thus, with characteristic bathos, Author Brinig (Singermann, The Sisters) sums up the heroine of his eighth novel, an urban version of Edna Ferber's So Big, written in a style as choked as the author's emotions...
...ideal that when ready to enter the business world, the graduate turn home rather than to some new community. The farm boy, for instance who settles in Wall Street is selfishly wasting his education, as far as his home is concerned. The present trend toward decentralization,--the urban river running backwards--suggests that the graduate think of his own community, for as each community becomes more integrated, the need for the knowledge gained by its youth increases. With the age of social well-being on the horizon, educators must soon recognize the problem of misused education, and instead of leaving...
...during the war. Drawings of child life during the war showed air fights and bombs going "Bon!" (Spanish equivalent for "Boom!"). Good sample of what war psychology means to a ten-year-old who knows high explosives better than he knows Dick Tracy was one drawing of an urban air raid in which war planes were carefully distinguished as tri-motor or single-motor jobs, small figures scurried for refuge stations. "Like bugs, poor darlings," said Mr. Weissberger...
...Dartmouth, through its first five games, has maintained a batting average of .327 as compared with Harvard's .297, and leads the Eastern Intercollegiate series with an average of .944 as opposed to the Crimson .932. The Big Green also ahs the best batsman in the circuit, catcher Joe Urban, who scored a .500 in his first five games...