Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This would appear to be damning, but can we not say charitably in this season of love that the previous record of fault was a wild oat carelessly sown and repented? After all, how many beneficent builders of the nation's libraries, hospitals, and universities have buried their "robber baron" beginnings under a flood of gifts that is a mere trickle when compared to Claus' munificence over the centuries...
...Richard Pearson strong Professorship of tropical Public Health got this substantial shot in the arm yesterday afternoon when the Belgian Ambassador to the United States, Baron Silvercruys, presented the gift at a special ceremony at the School...
...hand that plunges the latest rubber dagger into the heart of Hollywood belongs to no neophyte; Author Carson won the Academy Award in 1937 for coscripting A Star Is Born. But his novel has a chance for life only while Franklin P. Silversmith, his egomaniacal robber baron, struts over its sets...
Kentucky's burly Basketball Coach Adolph ("The Baron") Rupp, blistered by Manhattan's Judge Saul S. Streit in an expose of the evils of professionalized college sport (TIME, May 12), had another comeuppance last week. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, using Judge Streit's files, decided that Rupp had another comeuppance last week. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, using Judge Streit's files, decided that Rupp had 1) knowingly used ineligible players, and 2) condoned cash payments to his stars. Forthwith the N.C.A.A. cracked down, barred Kentucky's basketball team from intercollegiate N.C.A.A. play...
German students at the University bear out Friedrich's opinion. Baron Ruediger von Pachelbel-Gehag, doing graduate work in law, says, "The German people learned their lesson after the war. They are glad of the existence of a fascist party so that its strength can be known. Fascism could never gain support in Germany...