Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plays the piano, conducts the instruments, singers, and chorus, hums through comb-and-tissue-paper, and coordinates the other unlikely effects that intersperse the opera. The stage direction by Margaret Fairbank is usually enlivening, although there are some leaden moments. There is, however, a good deal of tension built up when the rain comes and the ranchers dance...
...answer could not have been affirmative, for despite an occasional general report and frequent debate over trivia, very few constructive ideas have affected the Houses since President Lowell built them a quarter century ago. After initial student and alumni opposition to the then radical plan had subsided, the Houses gradually became subjects of complacent self-congratulation and reminders of an era when Harvard was smaller in size, but perhaps greater in strength...
...imaginative efforts to enlist more faculty interest in the House and to bring all levels of teachers into a closer relation to its function. At present, this is virtually impossible because of the pressure of numbers. The Houses are filled to overflowing, and only when new Houses are built can room be made for more teachers--either as residents or as close associates. The University should be wary of building more office buildings, and instead should concentrate on including more office space for faculty members in both existing and new Houses. When a professor works and holds office hours...
...this observer, the Penn victory was the most significant one thus far. The Crimson did something that it consistently failed to do in the past, come back after it had blown a giant lead. Crimson teams in the past often built up leads, but once they lost the advantage, they could never recover...
...FREIGHTER-BUILDING program will be subsidized by Government. Maritime Administration is negotiating to replace entire 54-ship fleet of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. with fast (18 knots) freighters that could be used in national emergency. Deal calls for up to 53 dry-cargo ships to be built in private yards over 20 years with Government paying half of the estimated $500 million cost...