Word: rightness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tough, narrow-waisted fairways, and needing only even pars to tie Middlecoff was Sam Snead. The grapevine buzzed that Snead was hot. "He's burning up that last nine," snapped Middlecoff nervously. "I'm betting I won't win. I'll bet you $10 right now that Snead ties me or beats me." Somebody took...
...sometimes startling, it is because they are men of imagination, artists. But all spring from our culture and even our religion . . . When some think themselves communist, it is as artists are communist, out of love for the poor. We must free them to work for us, give them the right to paint on our walls, and they will tell our great story as it has not been told in 500 years." To those who would draw the line at the abstractionists he says: "Abstract art has as much a place in church as the organ music of Bach...
...stop spark plugs from broadcasting, he decided, was to enclose the ignition wires in metal shields leading from the magneto to the plugs. Thus, there would be a return path for the high-frequency elements in the spark current (the source of the trouble). The plugs would go right on broadcasting, but the waves they created would stay inside the shield...
...promoter and would-be automaker, Preston Tucker had an easy explanation for almost all his troubles. Even when his company filed to reorganize under the bankruptcy laws, he glibly promised that everything would be all right. But he ran out of answers before a federal grand jury which called in 95 witnesses and collected 10,000 pages of testimony during a 3½-month investigation of the Tucker Corp...
Penney chose his partners carefully, paying as much attention to the wife as to the man ("a good woman's power to encourage is well nigh unlimited"). Once he found the right partner, he gave him a share of any profits and trusted him completely. By 1924 he was calling himself "the man with a thousand partners." Penney's 50,000 "associates" (employees) still share in the profits after a year's service...