Word: bane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plethora of books is the bane of American history scholars who use a large library, while a paucity of them troubles the historian in the hinterlands. Either way, the serious scholar needs a general bibliography when he selects books for his research, and until now historians have necessarily relied upon the Channing, Hart, and Turner Guide to the Study and Reading of American History, published in 1912. But a bibliography four decades out-of-date and twenty years out of print has limited usefulness, and it remained for the authors of the Harvard Guide to American History to recommend...
...weightthrow, a track & field event normally reserved for bulge-bellied giants-in fact, the weight men are commonly called "whales." At Tufts College, Backus, still slim but taking on weight, became a better-than-average weight-thrower, but he was always in the shadow of his roommate Tom Bane, who in 1951 set a world record with a throw...
Just a year ago Backus, now a strapping giant (6 ft. 5 in., 218 Ibs.), and still doggedly heaving the 35-lb. weight, managed to throw it a new record distance, a quarter of an inch, farther than Bane's mark. Again Backus suffered a disappointing washout. On inspection, it was found that the 35-lb. weight was a few ounces underweight...
...exactly the bane of the financial report, but admittedly rather a nuisance are two funds that the University holds in trust for purposes unconnected with the College. Needless to say both fund dates back to the 18th country...
Dimitri Mitropoulos, the strong-minded conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, has become the hero of Manhattan's modernists and the bane of its musical conservatives. In four years, he has introduced new symphonic works by such radicals as Schoenberg, Schnabel and Sessions, and such theater works (in concert form) as Busoni's Arlecchino and Berg's Wozzeck. Last week he was at it again: he conducted the first U.S. performance of Darius Milhaud's opera Christopher Columbus...