Word: craning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coffee Concerts were brewed by a member of the Museum's music committee: Louise Crane, wide-eyed, 27-year-old onetime Vassar student, daughter of Massachusetts' late, rich, paper-manufacturing Governor Winthrop Murray Crane. Miss Crane dislikes the "tortured looks" of symphony audiences. She likes jazz but hates it in nightclubs. So she roamed Harlem hunting unusual talent, and severely warned culture seekers to stay away from the results...
...professors who will talk are: Crane Brinton, associate professor of History, Frederick Merk, professor of History, Perry Miller, associate professor of History and Literature, John M. Potter '26, assistant professor of History and Literature, and D. J. Struik, professor of Mathematics...
Heading an organization of some 20 members, enrolled through personal contact are Newbold R. Landon '42, chairman. John Crane-Baker '43, secretary, and Harold M. Thewlis '42, treasurer...
With Acting Master and Senior Tutor Seymour Harris heading a staff that includes Professors Leontieff, Mason, and Schumpeter, and Instructors P.M. Sweezy and J.R. Nelson, Economics is the House's strongest field. The outstanding History tutor is Professor Crane Brinton, head of the Department and resident in the House, while Assistant Professor Pendleton Herring, secretary of the Littauer School of Public Administration, is among the Government tutors...
...whooping crane attains a snowy height of six feet, was once considered a game bird. Last week the last 100 survivors were leaving the Gulf coast for their Canadian breeding grounds, where they mate with an elaborate dance. Probably they are holding their...