Word: closer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Executive Secretary has also been studying the best ways to coordinate Undergraduate and Graduate School alumni clubs. President Pusey had suggested that all alumni groups work in closer contact in a speech last spring...
Levin defended these reductions, saying, "We have lost very little by this scaling-down of the plans." He expressed a belief that the smaller auditorium was "closer to the ideal for a college theatre...
Much as Maine Painter John Marin (another Stieglitz protege) chose the sky as his province, Dove made the earth and sea his domain. To get closer to both, he moved out of Manhattan, where he had been a successful illustrator, and bought a farm in Westport, Conn., began raising chickens. When that venture failed, he tried his hand at being a lobsterman. Art, he decided, should not depend so much on natural forms as on substituting equivalent images for them. He was searching for a means of expression that would not depend on representation, that "should have order, size, intensity...
Glow of Furnaces. Steel was living up to the hopes steelmen held for it earlier in the year. Last.week the American Iron and Steel Institute reported that production in September reached 65.8% of capacity, the highest of any month this year. By week's end. producers were running closer to 71%. The reason for the steel upsurge was simply that many firms had cut inventories so low that they were hustling to order before a shortage set in. Jones & Laughlin, fourth largest producer, upped its output to 82% as a result of "a sharp increase in orders...
...Legion d'Honneur is presented to important people of friendly countries who play a major part in developing better understanding and closer friendship between France and other countries...