Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Running the Seminar was a big job that kept the faculty and administrators constantly busy. Other Harvard men at Salzburg besides Pierce and Sutton and Professors Leontief and Parsons were Robert Solow 2G, wha assisted Professor Leontief, and Richard D. Campbell Jr. '48, Roger S. Kuhn '47, Richard B. Wegster...
For the precise and punctual members of La Paz's British colony, this state of affairs has been hard to bear. Last week the Britons were busy doing something about it. To mark the city's 400th anniversary next month, they had hit upon a handsome gift: a...
Now, at 39, Agnes de Mille doesn't dance often, but when she does, her mixture of classical precision and homegrown humor sets balletomanes cheering. As the nation's top choreographer, she is usually too busy doing other things. By bringing ballet to Broadway, she thinks, she has...
Such anachronisms did not bother antitrust's busy boss, Assistant Attorney General Herbert A. Bergson. His department had $3,400,000 given by the last Congress, more money than it had ever had. With it, Bergson predicted last week that he would outbust Trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt, who had gone...
When he settles down in his armchair to read, he turns to old masterpieces (two recent exceptions: the poetry of Pulitzer-Prizewinning U.S. Poet Robert Lowell, which he admires, and a German biography of Albert Einstein, for whom he has great regard). Santayana is never too busy to see visitors...