Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home in everybody's wallet. In a tangible way, while soothsayers write of a fearful and cautious population, the $20 bill has produced a new "Age of Jackson" and a new age of confidence. And the very familiarity of long green seems to have eased the pursuit of the dollar that Europeans firmly believe to be the U.S.'s chief characteristic. A sign of the times might be detected in Careers, a new board game put out by Parker Brothers, the Salem, Mass, firm that struck it rich with Monopoly in the '30s. In Careers...
Gibraltar into Volcano. But if Policyholder Shanks is as predictable as the dawn, Prudential President Shanks is not. In the insurance industry, he has erupted with such force, in the pursuit of new ways to sell insurance and new ways to invest the Pru's billions, that he has turned the Rock of Gibraltar, the company's famed trademark, into something resembling a volcano. By dint of his ideas and exertions, Shanks has not only become one of the most respected spokesmen for U.S. life insurance, but has also made the Pru, whose head offices are in Newark...
...returned to the Air Force. Owen and Radarman Curtiss A. Adams, 27, were flying a final chore: three runs at another jet 25,000 ft. up, to test the ingenious radar mechanism that puts the interceptor on the trail of invading aircraft, fixes on the enemy in unshakable pursuit, then at the proper moment, opens fire automatically...
...face of it, the picture is just Hollywood's way of swatting one of its more irritating fleas: most of the people who have been smeared by the scandal magazines are movie stars. But in a deeper sense the moviemakers have served the public too. For in the pursuit of the principal villain they also take a swipe or two at his accomplices-at the readership which settles in cloudlike millions on the garbage which the scandal sheets provide...
...called "course reduction" program under which some students are permitted to pursue an approved project in place of course requirements; and certainly the senior honors essay, or thesis, is the epitome of successful independent study. And even the tutorial program, at least in theory, is the independent pursuit by tutor and tutee of a mutually interesting, and mutually beneficial, program of study and discussion...