Word: choses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Boring went to Cornell in 1904 intending to major in mechanical engineering, and in fact received his M.E. in 1908. But his was not an orthodox program. To the profane astonishment of the professor of mechanical engineering, Boring chose English composition and psychology as two of his elective courses...
...Harvard and Stanford offered Boring jobs. Stanford promised a higher salary and a higher position. Boring chose Harvard. He began his career with a six-week hospitalization from an auto accident. He comments: "I have no proof that the accident did not make me brighter. Medical science lacks controls...
...clear that no one businessman represented the whole story of the new economy, so we chose twelve key executives in dynamic companies that range all across the broad sweep of U.S. business and industry. The choices were pointed but not necessarily exclusive-a good many of the colleagues and competitors of these twelve might have been included. The twelve we chose...
Christopher Plantin, a leather tooler of Antwerp, was making a late delivery one night in 1555 when thugs set upon him with swords and deeply pierced his shoulder. Thus crippled, Plantin had to turn to an easier and less muscular occupation; having made many leather bindings for books, he chose publishing. The same year he printed a small volume on etiquette called The Instruction of a Girl of Noble Birth-the first publication of what was to become the greatest printing house of the 16th and ryth centuries...
...Imagine, a President." By the time he was 15, Ernie Davis stood 6 ft. tall and weighed 175 Ibs. He was living in Elmira, N.Y., with his mother, and he won eleven letters at Elmira Free Academy. "About 30" colleges offered him football scholarships. But he chose Syracuse-just 90 miles from home. In 1959, as a sophomore, 205-lb. Halfback Davis gained 686 yds., scored 64 points-more than all ten of Syracuse's opponents combined-and led the Orangemen to an undefeated season, the No. 1 ranking, and a 23-14 victory over Texas in the Cotton...