Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncomfortable Penn fans felt during the game that they had seen this same performance before, they were quite right. Two years age the setting, plot, and featured performer were all the same as they were today--only the supporting cast had changed. The spot was rain-swept Franklin Field, Philadelphia, and a Harvard team, fresh from a defeat at the hands of Dartmouth and in the midst of one of its worst seasons on record, was expected to be easy prey for the Quaker eleven. And the star, just as today, was Boulris...
...areas auto showrooms were empty, and building construction came to a halt. By week's end close to 300,000 workers outside the 500,000 in the steel industry nad been squeezed out of their jobs. Foreign competition was invading long-nurtured U.S. markets. The trade magazine Iron Age predicted that, even with settlement, the U.S. would still be feeling the steel shortages into next summer...
...week announced his retirement, Spaceman von Braun and Army pressagents played it as a protest against the space mixup. But Medaris, 57, made it clear that he had decided to retire two months before to get a toe hold in private business or education before he reached the retirement age...
...morning, the group of student visitors--average age 25.5 years--met with Dean Bundy to discuss further American-Soviet exchange programs. Following a closed luncheon in Quincy House, the group wandered through Widener, Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger, Peabody Museum, and the Russian Research Center...
Mann's judgement about technical effects is often questionable. For example, in a scene outside Dr. Abelman's house in the Brooklyn slums, three teen-age Negroes throw beer cans at Woody Thrasher's white sedan as Thrasher drives away. This moment could have been quite eloquent, but some loud, over-dramatic background music destroyed the entire effect...