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...energy of Samson. He would begin by learning the necessary background for an intelligent lot-seeker, making it his business to study drainage, zoning, prevailing winds, taxes and prospects for taxes, new developments and proposals for new highways & byways in the county. Before designing the house itself he would cram his head with tables of construction costs (still more than double what they were ten years ago), master the rudiments of architecture, and learn to speak knowingly of furring and flashing, soffits and reveals muntins and mullions, gambrels, spandrels, hips and door butts...
Most medical schools do not insist on an undergraduate major in Biology, nevertheless future doctors cram into the field as the best preparation for a medical career...
...Herbert Zipper is remembered by thousands for his yearly concerts in Baguio and Manila. He developed talent amongst the Filipinos, and was loved and respected by his musicians and his audiences as a brilliant man who knew our tastes and never tried to cram anything down our throats. He seems to be following the same pattern in Brooklyn [TIME, March...
...last week, a tiny, single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza was rolled out onto the runway. Into it stepped lanky, 29-year-old William P. Odom, round-the-world speed champion (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), dressed in a splashy tie, double-breasted suit and Homburg hat. Odom had managed to cram 300 gallons of gasoline into his red-and-silver monoplane, some in extra tanks on his wings and some in his cabin...
Green Hair falls short not because it hasan idea but because it has one too many (it tries to preach against both war and intolerance), and because it labors so clumsily to 'cram its ideas into the mold of "entertainment." As a result, the message seems as contrived and insincere as a singing commercial, and just about as entertaining...