Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while it looked as though there would be no Boston Arts Festival this year: the Park Commissioner refused to allow use of the Public Gardens because of all the trampling the grass underwent in previous years. But he finally yielded to the forces of culture when the Festival authorities promised to have the grounds reseeded, and the seventh annual Festival took place successfully, ending a week...
Then Terry spelled propylaeum as "pro-pileum." Confidently, just as if she knew that the word means a vestibule or entrance, Jolitta spelled it correctly, then topped it off with syllepsis (the use of a word to modify two or more others, only one of which it agrees with in gender, number, etc.). Prize for Terry Madeira, an eighth-grader at Elizabethtown (Pa.) Junior High School: $500. For Jolitta. an eighth-grader at Harmony Rural School in McPherson, Kans., who studies spelling with her schoolteacher mother, plans to become a missionary, use most of the money for her education...
Leaders & Laggards. The indexes use statistics from 21 different areas that cover the important segments of the nation's economy-production, employment, income, prices, etc. When all statistics are moving up, the diffusion indexes read 100. When all are moving down, the indexes are zero. If half are moving up and half down, the indexes are 50. When the indexes drop below 50, it means the economy is contracting; when they rise above 50, the economy is expanding. The basic 21 are broken down into three groups called 1) the Leading Series, 2) the Coincident Series...
...nation's major airports last week, big new radar installations of spinning antennas and scanning screens were being readied for use as part of a $13 million radar network that will eventually help control air traffic around 27 major U.S. cities. On Wall Street many a brokerage house tuned in with its own radar to take a reading on the firm responsible for the network: Raytheon Manufacturing Co. of Waltham, Mass. They liked what they saw so well that Raytheon stock moved to an alltime high of $30 a share...
...Sarkis Gulbenkian got a Turkish five-shilling piece as a present and promptly rushed to the bazaar with it to buy an old coin. The boy's father unprophetically chided Calouste on his earliest recorded financial deal: "If that's the way you're going to use your money, you'll end up in the gutter...