Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Multimillionaire (TransWorld Airlines, Hughes Aircraft Co., etc.) Howard Hughes, 51, for more than a quarter-century Hollywood's most eligible (estimate: $200 million) catch, was snared at last. The winner: sometime Cinemactress Jean (It Happens Every Spring) Peters, 30, for ten years a close friend of Hughes's, not counting a year's marital fling in the interim with a Texas oilman...
...possibilities of gemmaux for decoration are considerable. But glass has too brassy a tone to catch certain delicate color harmonies more suitable to paint on canvas. Aware of the medium's possibilities and limitations, Picasso is already working on several designs specifically intended as gemmaux. If other artists of quality follow his lead and create originals for gemmaux, the medium may well develop into what Picasso has called...
Rockets & Light Planes. To compound the troubles, few U.S. enginemakers have been quick to jump into the new field of rocket power. Though both Curtiss-Wright and General Electric, now building the first-stage rocket motor for the Vanguard satellite project, are hurrying to catch up, most of the contracts so far have gone to new companies in the field. North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division currently has 10,250 employees and contracts to power a fleet of big missiles, from the intercontinental Atlas to the Army's 200-mile Redstone. A second newcomer. California's Aerojet...
...chief positive values of the Reading Period, according to most of the answers, is the chance to integrate the previous material and to do individual unrequired work. Although many lamented the fact that they often utilized the time "just to catch up," this was blamed on "their own bad management" and not on the system itself...
...remarkable number of extracurricular activities at Harvard, and taking human nature into account, he probably would doubt that periods placed at such propitious times were ever used for advanced study in the course, that Fall and Spring term Reading Periods were intended to be capstones, not cramming orgies or catch-alls. Such doubts and suspicions would be extremly well founded...