Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curious about the United States, Fainsod claimed. In Moscow, he related, students disrupted a class when they learned that he was visiting them. After much whispering, they passed a note addressed "To the American professor," which read: "The honored Mr. professor: will you speak to us in the break between classes? (Signed) A group of students...
During the break these students asked such question as "What courses do Harvard students study? Are jobs assigned to students or do they have to find them for themselves?" Later the questions spread to segregation. Fainsod reported that there was no disposition to debate, even when his statements conflicted with the party line...
Brown's freshman hockey team registered a surprising 3 to 2 upset victory over the Yardling sextet on Saturday to break the Crimson's six-game winning streak. The win repaid a 5 to 1 defeat the Bruin freshmen had suffered against the Yardlings in January. Brown wing Dave Kelley tallied two goals to give his team a 3 to 1 lead with several minutes remaining in the game. Yardling center Mike Graney brought the freshmen to within one goal of the Bruins, but the strong Brown defense held the Crimson skaters at bay until the final Buzzer...
...INDUSTRIAL CITY will rise along Mississippi River 30 miles upstream from New Orleans. William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp is break ing ground for $120 million townsite for 4,000 families, expects to finish first houses by July. Another $200 million will be invested in new plants there by Olin Revere Metals, Dow Chemical Co., Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., Kaiser Aluminum Corp...
...rested last week with Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson. While Johnson is dead set against a strictly presidential commission because he fears that it might be dominated by big business and big banking, he is equally afraid that a House investigation alone might degenerate into bitter partisan battle. To break the impasse, Johnson is pushing for a compromise commission of his own, one-third of whose members would be named by President Eisenhower, with the other two-thirds divided between the House and Senate, somewhat along the lines of the Hoover Commission on Organ ization of the Executive Branch...