Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the paneled office of Manhattan's J. P. Morgan & Co. Inc. last week trooped a bunch of happy Texans. There they put the final seal on the biggest private deal in the history of natural gas: the financing of a new $193 million pipeline to pump gas from Hidalgo County, on the Rio Grande, to Manhattan's 132nd Street...
...installed as pilot-models for Lamont; the new library will use slim-line fluorescent tubing which turns out 20 foot-candles and can be stepped up if required, at no greater operating cost than ordinary fixtures. Keyes DeW. Metcalf, library director, spent three years shopping around and employed a bunch of lighting consultants before deciding on the arrangement. The rest of the University would do well to follow his example. For inadequate lighting is one of the most serious weaknesses in Harvard's facilities...
...dramatize this point, Manhattan's publicity-wise Museum of Modern Art was staging a show last week that paired ancient distortions with modern distortions-and implied that both were good. A paleolithic fetish 77,000 years old and shaped like a bunch of grapes made Gaston Lachaise's blimpish Standing Woman (1932) look a comparatively svelte great-granddaughter. A Canaanite idol dated 1000 B.C. seemed a more attenuated ancestor of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's Standing Youth, done in 1913 (see cuts). The horse in Picasso's Guernica was no more or less weird than the deerhead mask...
Then there were those youngsters who wanted to ruin a real fine football game by setting off a pile of gunpowder in the middle of the field, and the other fellas who shot a bunch of Roman candles into the Yalie stands...
...such contrivances as rocket-ships and atomic persuaders, damn near succeeded. But after weathering several molecular blasts, Superman balked the "power-crazed demon," who had had the United Nations eating out of his hand. Immediately following this chilling epic, however, Superman dawdled a whole fortnight, breaking up a dowdy bunch of racketeers engaged in fixing football games...