Word: binds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week in Philadelphia, 56-year-old Referee Swaffield will bind up a game left leg with twelve yards of adhesive tape, then gallop up & down Municipal Stadium for some six miles before 100,000 witnesses who will hardly even notice him. The fans will be watching the Army-Navy game and the four stripe-shirted officials will be just mobile scenery, chiefly worth attention only if they commit bloopers or get knocked down and run over by a power play...
Milland turns up as a vaudeville trick-shot artist in a post-bellum copper-mining town where Villain MacDonald Carey is whipping up anti-Confederate feeling for crass economic reasons. The ex-colonel rallies the underprivileged Southerners, converts Adventuress Lamarr to righteousness and does his bit to bind the nation's wounds by quoting Lincoln on "malice toward none." What is especially depressing about Copper Canyon is not so much its dreary reprise of movies best forgotten as its dreary portent of movies still to come...
Novelist Pollet has focused her slender story on two sisters, Sally and Marjorie Reynolds, who are at that difficult stage when adult independence beckons but family ties still bind. At 23, Sally is the sort of girl people call "delightfully feminine," though they wonder why she doesn't marry. Marjorie, 17, shows more troubling symptoms: a vague intellectual restlessness combined with a fondness for make-believe play with her six-year-old brother Paul...
...before the Administrative Board introduces the measure to the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday. October 17, the Student Council gets a chance to consider the motion. Its decision will not bind the faculty, however, since the council's function is wholly advisory...
...time of Eisenhower's selection, Columbia had been in an administrative declines for some time. In the last year of President Butler's long reign, he delayed many decisions, not wishing to bind his successor an he urged many professors to stay on beyond their retirement time, so that his successor could pick fresh...