Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Vermont neighbors take no special notice of the heavy-set man with the big head of unkempt white hair. Occasionally they meet him on a back-country road, trudging along with an oddly catlike grace, wearing an old blue denim jacket and blue sneakers. They recognize the heavy, big-knuckled hand shaped to axhelve and pitchfork, the heavy shoulders hunched to the swing of a scythe. Vermonters find nothing outlandish or alarming about Robert Frost...
...Vergil, Horace and Catullus. (In any possible hereafter, says Frost, he would like most to dine with Theocritus). Keats and Shelley were uncongenially flowery. He learned the dramatic lyric from Browning, decided that what he wanted was "the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words." He set himself such exercises...
Less spectacular, but more impressive to traders, was the performance of blue-chip General Motors, which gained 1⅞ points to set a new alltime high at 99⅞. Chrysler did even better, gained 3½ points. Since the market had now broken through all previous "resistance points" (i.e., levels at which stocks had been bought at higher prices), beamish Wall Street bulls thought there would be more climbing...
Last week Delta's big (6 ft. 1 in., 210 Ibs.), 6 -year-old Collett Everman Woolman was all set to dump Captain Eddie off his lap. Woolman got together with Northeast Airlines, Inc.'s President George E. Gardner on a plan to absorb Northeast, which runs from New York through New England to Montreal...
...many maritime men the most efficient U.S. shipper. Other shippers make no bones about their dislike of him because he 1) accepts no Government subsidies ("I prefer to earn my own money"), and 2) has fought long & hard against the conferences by which most U.S. shippers' rates are set. His most effective weapon to get business is to undercut the conference rates. Said one conference shipper: "He's the smartest damn guy in the whole business. You can hardly get a lawyer to go against him, because he's usually right...