Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dana M. Doten '29, Publication Agent, couldn't estimate the total amount thus saved, because each department is billed separately. Since many students take both a "Preliminary" and "final" catalog, the committee hopes to diminish the expense of giving out a total of over 15,000 copies. Hickman pointed out that the change would give departments more time to plan courses and personnel...
...excess weight in order to get in trim, Harvard wrestlers do quite well without a steam room. In the basement of the Indoor Building are steam tunnels so large that a man can easily run around in them--the combination of exercise and steam makes an ideal reducing agent...
...pages (840,000 words) will make it the longest U.S. novel in many a year. It will have to be brought out in two volumes at about $10. Moreover, it is a first novel, though Cooper wrote and destroyed another one a quarter-century ago when a literary agent said it was no good. Cooper knew that the odds were much against his finding a publisher. He sent Houghton Mifflin an apologetic note: "Your reader is going to say what the hell, and I don't blame him." Instead, the readers formed a Cooper cheering section. Wrote...
Last week the successful farm experiment begun by a county agent from North Carolina and Tennessee was about to be spread across the length & breadth of India. Horace Holmes, now chief of agriculture in India's Point Four program, began his experiment in the Etawah district in northern India in 1948 (TIME, Jan. 22, 1951). Says he: "I found the Indian farmer struggling with the same problems that we have in America . . . lack of good seed, lack of sufficient credit, poor land, diseases, insects, drought and pests." Holmes did not attempt to mechanize Etawah, but showed the Indian farmers...
...After four months of loafing around the campus Coke machines, a U.S. Secret Service agent pounced on three University of Wyoming students and hustled them off to jail. Their crime: shrinking pennies to dime-size in a one-minute bath of nitric acid. The law conceded that only about $20 worth of Cokes had been stolen in all, and that as many as 20 other students had done the same thing, but it still charged the three pranksters with mutilating U.S. currency. Bail was set at $1,000 apiece. Maximum penalty: a $2,000 fine and five years in jail...