Word: colossuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes a big chunk of money to run the colossus that is Harvard University--$135 million last year. The Federal government chips in about a third of the total, but the University must provide the rest from year-to-year alumni gifts, foundation grants, student tuition, and the yearly income from the famed and mysterious billion dollar endowment...
...beautiful, powerful indomitable colossus...
West Germany's Horst Janssen is an unkempt, 200-lb. colossus who, when not actually at his drawing board, sprawls on his unmade bed, clad in boots and blue jeans, redolent of cheap schnapps, cursing the world and especially its art critics. Yet for all his fulminations, both fame and money seem to be irresistibly coming Janssen...
...public service since the early 1930s and serve as L.B.J.'s study after his presidency, had its first showing, in model form, last week in a presentation presided over by W. W. Heath, chairman of the board of regents. It turned out to be a ten-gallon colossus. The complex was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Gordon Bunshaft, who also did Yale's rare-book library. Situated on a 19-acre extension of the university, the $10,750,000 project (to be paid for by Texas' oil-rich land-grant endowment fund) is actually...
...oven and the gas jets wide open. The dead woman was Sylvia Plath, 30, an American poet whose marriage to Ted Hughes, a British poet, had gone on the rocks not long before. Her published verses, appearing occasionally in American magazines and gathered in a single volume, The Colossus, had displayed accents of refinement, but had not yet achieved authority of tone...