Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dollar by dollar, Manhattan's grandiose, slow-moving, multi-mused Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts inches closer to completion. On the drawing boards since 1956, the project, which eventually will become a six-building headquarters for the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera and other highbrow projects, has had to squirm past hassles with disgruntled tenants and will not be completed before...
...cold winter and a wet spring, was picking up speed rapidly. April housing jumped to an annual rate of 950,000, v. a level of 880,000 in March, and is expected to do even better in May. ¶ Inventories declined still another $700 million in March, bringing closer the time when many industries must start reordering. As steel stocks slipped down to the 1954 level, steelmen report that 10% of all capacity-and 20% of all new orders -is on a rush basis, about as high as the industry can go. With production currently...
Noting the preponderance of graduate school alumni over those of the College, by a ratio of almost three to one, Pusey urged that alumni offices explore new methods to keep graduates in closer touch with the University and to remind them of their obligation...
...compelling quality of doing astonishingly inappropriate things and then forcing others to recognize a Tightness in their appalling behavior. At his best, Malamud is often as funny and earthy as the great Jewish humorist, Shalom Aleichem. But in his transfigured view of the world he may lie even closer to Francois Mauriac, the Catholic moralist who also holds that "the marks left by one individual upon another are eternal, and not with impunity can some other's destiny cross...
Third, in smaller countries, students feel closer to their government, and a close-knit intellectual elite of student makes united action easier and increases interest...