Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toward Georgian beauty of the library, which Dartmouth candidly claims is the largest college library in the world, with 750,000 volumes. Rising Lowell-House-like above the "green", Baker Library houses a variety of treasured, including such outstanding author collections as those of Robert Burns, George Ticknor, Stephen crane, and Robert Frost and such regional libraries as the Stefannson Collection on polar areas. Since Dartmouth prides itself on a "teaching" faculty, most professors there do comparatively little research. Thus, the library is considered easily adequate for their needs as well as those of the undergraduates...
There is no question that Dartmouth brings important men to speak to its seniors. Speakers who have appeared in the past few years include such named as Dean Acheson, Sherman Adams, Crane Brinton, Dean Bundy, President-Emeritus Conant, Raphael Demos, Irwin Edman, Erich Fromm, Wilbur K. Jordan, Owen Lattimore, Archibald MacLeish, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Paul J. Tillich...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, discussed by University of Michigan Professor Verner Crane, TIME'S Robert Manning...
Last week 3,000 people gathered in a flotilla of small boats in the bay of San Fruttuoso. After Mass, the giant statue, its 900-lb. bulk suspended from a naval crane, was lowered into the sea. Slowly the water mounted, inch by inch, until at last it swirled over the suppliant hands. Said a message from Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri: "Where men, the pioneers of new roads, are beginning to descend, our Lord and Redeemer descends today...
...years, but they are dangerous to ..erect except in a glassy sea. The critical moment is when the heavy jacket is lifted from the deck of the barge and set upright in the sea. Even gentle waves can make it swing like a pendulum, tipping the barge, pulling the crane out of line, snapping thick steel cables. Sometimes an erecting barge has to wait for costly weeks before the sea is calm enough to risk a dash to the drilling site...