Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like his colleagues everywhere, says Pusey, "the Harvard professor is a poorer man today than he has been for generations." The college must not only raise salaries and restore the professor's purchasing power; it has the duty to increase its scholarship programs and to build new houses for its growing student body. But a major reason for Harvard's need is the phenomenal growth of knowledge itself. Both the chemistry and astronomy departments, for instance, have outgrown their facilities. The young department of social relations never had proper accommodations in the first place. There must also...
...could do anything with a football; they also had a couple of tough line men: End Buddy Cruze, Tackle and Captain John Gordy. But that was about all. Making the best of a bad situation, Coach Wyatt worked hard with his second-stringers, tried to build a club that could hold off the opposition while his stars caught their breath. His philosophy was disarmingly simple: "We play to keep the other guys bottled up down deep and watch their mistakes. Then, when you get a break, you've only got a short way to go to score. It beats...
...pride. Not counting 235 bottles of scotch, 165 bottles of champagne, 15 gallons of pure alcohol and one bottle "of Howard County applejack (all of which went down the drain to avoid tax complications), he left a round $900,000 to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to build Shriver Hall of materials "the best obtainable in the world." And he tied his bequest down with stipulations that made it to his confreres "one of the most remarkable documents of our time...
...were flooding in, old tankers going for record prices. When the Maritime Administration offered six mothballed T-2 tankers for sale last week, it got 240 bids from 44 bidders, some offering as much as $2,456,525 for ships that originally cost an average $3,000,000 to build during World War II, were worth less than $1,000,000 apiece until war broke out in the Middle East. In Chester, Pa., Sun Shipbuilding Corp. signed orders for two new 30,000-ton tankers, expected to close deals for several 45,000-ton tankers and several more giant...
...main question for Egypt," stated Col. Nizan, "is leadership. That nation must have leaders who understand the desires of Israel, and realize that she wants nothing but to be left alone to build herself up. Egyptian leaders who instill hatred into their people only aggravate the situation...