Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...comic-strip artist knows, violence is a hard thing to picture convincingly. To make mayhem clear, the comics fall back on such arbitrary and unrealistic conventions as lines trailing from fists, stars suspended at the point of contact, and words like CRASH and POW floating overhead. The Persians were more subtle...
...which probably dates from the 15th Century-a drawing of a Persian cavalier happily bashing his enemy with a mace. The drawing is done with almost feminine delicacy, and without any tricks. In the Fogg's current Bulletin, Scholar Eric Schroeder points out some of the subtleties that make it convincing...
...from a big office building which will adjoin the hotel, and most of all on the nomadic U.S. people, whose travel has greatly increased. Said Douglas: "Our rates will be on a par with those of other leading Los Angeles hotels. And if we did not think we could make money on it, we wouldn't build...
Furthermore, the committee hinted that the Brazilians had the cooperation of a few big U.S. commodity dealers, notably George V. Robbins, then president of the National Coffee Association and green-coffee buyer for the Maxwell House Division of General Foods Corp. To make sure that Coffeeman Robbins' cooperation would be good to the last drop, the committee implied, Brazilians secretly sold him several hundred thousand bags of coffee at the bargain prices of 18? and 19? a pound. (General Foods denied that any action of theirs had anything to do with the price rise...
...gold was dropping all over the world. In the free market of Tangier where many of South Africa's premium sales were made the price was already down to $36.90 an ounce off more than $1.50 in a month and below the level where South Africa can make its premium sales pay. In France the price had tumbled to $38.25. In Milan and Hong Kong the story was the same. All over the world, said Manhattan's Franz Pick, publisher of a high-priced ($20 a month) report on world currencies, hundreds of small gold dealers were going...