Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group pressure doesn't suffice to get a beard off a chin or a world-saver off a soap box, the University is usually on hand with tutors, advisers, section men, and analysts. But even with the help of friends and elders, some of us will, like the grey haired men, smoke our cigarettes until they scorch our fingertips...
...Pollster George Gallup asked the question across the country and got the same answer he had got ten years ago-staying out of the big war with Russia. Completed after the Soviet missile announcement and before the school-integration issue got into the headlines, the Gallup survey produced this box score of concerns...
...Smith takes ordinary elements of transitory existence, records them in lasting material. What is different is Smith's choice of objects to preserve. The Sitting Printer, for example, is made from the back of an oak chair, a stool seat for a head and a typesetter's box, which Smith inherited when he took over another artist's studio, cast separately in bronze and then welded together. Agricola IX is one of a series Smith has done using bits of discarded farm implements, including parts from an abandoned buggy shop. For Smith, this work, which includes...
School Spirit. In Waukesha, Wis., two teen-age boys admitted that they had stolen $3.50 from the poor box of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, then spent it at the church's festival to raise funds for a school addition...
...Secret. In Columbus, Ohio, after police, alerted by suspicious merchants, followed Catherine Clegg, 34, found in her car and in a trick skirt, a chicken, two pounds of butter, a small ham, oranges, a package of chopped beef, a pound of perch, a pound of bacon, a steak, a box of Kleenex, a bottle of milk of magnesia, two kinds of toilet soap, two bottles of headache tablets, a couple of combs, a bottle of shampoo and two kinds of hair bleach-almost none of which had been paid for-she explained: "I didn't pay for the bleach...