Word: ark
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Adolph Wenzell served simultaneously as a consultant to the Government and an executive of the First Boston Corp., which helped in the project's financing. Possible loss to Dixon-Yates, if the contract is declared illegal: some $3,000,000 spent on preliminary work at the West Memphis, Ark. power-plant site...
THAT planetary ark of man's peaceful aspirations, the U.N., rode hopefully high last week as the General Assembly met in Manhattan for its tenth annual session. In all their formal addresses and still more in their hand-pumping greetings along the crowded, glass-walled corridors 500 delegates from 60 nations talked up "the Geneva spirit" that appeared to be abating tensions. In token of the new cordiality, the Assembly on the first ballot chose its president by unanimous vote. He is Chile's portly, polished Jose Maza, 66, a U.N. parliamentarian of ten years' standing. With...
Family & Early Life. During the Civil War, his Confederate grandfather died in a Union prison camp, and Union troops devastated the family plantation in Lafayette County, Miss. Quarles's father, a dentist, moved to Van Buren, Ark. As a boy, Quarles roamed the Ozarks, fished in mountain streams, applied an old country remedy when a playmate was bitten by a snake (the remedy: a raw-chicken poultice). He sang in his high-school glee club with bazooka-playing Arkansas Traveler Bob Burns, graduated at 15, then taught school for $50 a month. In 1912-16 he worked...
With that, bulldozers at the Dixon-Yates site at West Memphis. Ark. stopped running, but the political arguments on Capitol Hill rolled on. They are sure to continue at least until the 1956 election, focusing partly on the charges against Dixon-Yates made by congressional Democrats, partly on how much, if anything, the U.S. should pay the Dixon-Yates combine in closing out the contract...
...term he has been there, the 15 girls in his class have gradually become accustomed to him. Before each lecture, he carefully reviews his notes, then launches into a lighthearted dissertation on anything from "Noah's Ark" (because it happens to be raining outside) to "Eye Shadow" (i.e., the cosmetics of ancient Egypt). Recently, he recommended that his students go to see the movie, The Egyptian, as "an illuminating pictorial explanation of the period we are discussing." Thereupon, he swung around to the blackboard, jotted down the time of every showing...