Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...round-the-clock operation, Purdue's Memorial Union complex runs twin dance halls, 16 bowling alleys, banquet facilities for 1,500. It has 254 hotel rooms-and grosses $1,743,000 a year. The till fills with regular proceeds and student fees that average about $4 a semester. To handle such business, N.Y.U. last year launched a two-year graduate course in "college union management...
...suppose I will march up the hill again and march back down again. But when I reach the bottom of the hill, I will still be looking at the summit to see where I rightfully belong . . . One becomes weary in welldoing. The fire bell rang at 2 o'clock in the morning, 4 o'clock, 6 o'clock, midnight and 10 o'clock. While I was trying to woo Morpheus, suddenly that awful clang occurred, and I thought. "Goodness, who wants to go through all this again?" I do not want to go through it again...
Food Around the Clock. The larger clubs, with many facilities and correspondingly high overhead, have had to fight hard to stay in the black. Boston's Algonquin Club is down to 950 members from its customary 1,000, is closed on Sundays during the summer months, and operates with a skeleton staff on Saturdays. Philadelphia's University Club, founded in 1881, filed a petition of bankruptcy in July. Many of the members will join the Penn Athletic Club on a special cut-rate basis-thereby, perhaps, saving it from a similar fate...
Ambition has driven black-haired Jim Beatty to lengths that most men would not dream of going. He has run perhaps 10,000 miles in circles, trained his mind to tick like a clock, worked four hours a day for three years on a job that will never pay him a cent. "You have to keep your eyes firmly on your goal," he says, "and try not to waver." Last week Beatty's flying feet carried him closer than ever before to his elusive goal: the fastest mile in history. Before a crowd of 8,000 in Helsinki...
American landscape painter, and longtime (1939-49) president of the National Academy of Design who guided the institution down a careful academic path, arguing that "the Academy is like a pendulum to a clock-it assures a rational, regular, orderly progress. It has no room for experimentalists. The Academy can afford to wait"; in Mannhattan...