Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gamut from libidinal explanations to pure intellectual superiority. However, the most reasonable explanation is found in "conscientiousness." Admittedly generalizations are dangerous, but Radcliffe students actually tend to do more work, to do greater amounts of reading, and to concentrate more upon marks. In the long run, girls come out ahead, Edward P.Morris, head tutor of the Department of Romance Languages, says. This superiority, however, is not due to innate ability, but rather to "instilled habits." "Fewer girls than boys get E's. Their average minimum level of conscientiousness is probably higher than the boys'," I. Bernard Cohen, associate professor...
...aware of the other's presence-so what had happened? Grace Line officials charged that Valchem had suddenly turned into Santa Rosa's path. Valchem's skipper, Louis L. Murphy, 33, claimed that after his radar man spotted Santa Rosa from eight miles and "dead ahead," he changed course to pass port to port according to the Rules of the Road. Santa Rosa then apparently changed course to the left, said Murphy. When he heard the liner's fog signal, he said, he stopped engines and sounded warning signals, but "the Santa Rosa kept coming...
...nearly every Broadway opening. At his death, Newhouse's empire (which he estimates at $150 million-$200 million) will go into a nonprofit educational trust; the business will be run by his two sons, S.I. Jr., 31, and Don, 29. But Mr. S.I. Sr., at 63, is looking ahead only to his next purchase, even now is talking with the money-losing Rome Daily American (circ...
...ducal doxy, was nearing 50, and totally deaf as the result of a mysterious and paralyzing illness; as an artist, he was a respected court painter to Charles IV, but his searing studies of the agonies of war and the misery of the human condition still lay ahead of him. In the movie (filmed in Rome because the Alba family prevailed on Franco to lock the moviemakers out of Spain), "Paco" Goya is a beardless, hot-blooded youth (Anthony Franciosa) newly arrived in Madrid from the sticks. The duchess (Ava Gardner), a democratic type who prefers saloons to salons, eyes...
Under clear, late afternoon skies with the temperatures in the 70's, Harvard went ahead when left fielder Charlie Ravenel lined a fast ball over the left field wall, 291 feet away, in the second inning. Quantico came back with a run on another four-bagger, and the score remained tied until the seventh. Captain and catcher John Davis then poled a home run over the right field wall, and the Crimson got a third score the following inning. With Harvard ahead by two with one inning remaining, there seemed little doubt as to the outcome...