Word: accountancy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, a reporter's factual account of a truly remarkable man (who also professes to be "a man of God") provides the contrast which thinking men cannot fail to see. Padre Pio's life is far more eloquent than words...
Brickley, perhaps the most famous drop-kicker in football history, was best known for his feat on November 22, 1913, when he kicked five field goals--one from placement and four on drop-kicks--to account for all of the Crimson's points in a 15 to 5 win over Yale...
During the more than three years since my return from a long and rather embittering period in the Pacific Theater of Operations, I have read some pretty disheartening things about our attempt to sell democracy to the rest of the world. But I can recall no other single account which has caused me to feel greater discouragement than your report under The Congress [TIME...
...moment when Brazil's two major parties were still floundering hopelessly in attempts to find candidates of their own, Adhemar, never noted for his humility, turned his ebullient cockiness to good account. He showed off his crowd-drawing prowess at close range, played the self-confident candidate to the hilt. Long after he had flown back to São Paulo, a new samba called Adhemar Dá Jeito (Adhemar Will Fix It) blared from Rio's radios...
Died. Howard Colwell Hopson, 67, nimble promoter who pyramided 'the Associated Gas & Electric System into a billion-dollar holding-company empire that collapsed in the '30's; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Greenwich, Conn. Charged with using the mails to defraud, Hopson could account for such expenditures as a 10? bone for an unidentified dog, but not for $20 million swindled from stockholders. Jailed on a five-year sentence in 1941, he was released in 1944 to live out his life in a mental sanitarium...