Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Real estate is, of course, the least of Picasso's inheritance from Cezanne. The transition from one painter to the other is direct and complete. Their aesthetic credos coincide and their sucessive development is a matter of logical procession. Yet, it is seldom that one sees the two exhibited side by side. Collectors whose tastes embrace Cezanne somehow are wont to find Picasso extreme and lately it has become fashionable to see the older master as a conservative, so a chance to see the two in close proximity is welcome and valuable...
...hungry Clyde Ellis, director of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. To farm-state representatives of both parties the bill was alluring; Ellis for weeks had been bringing his regional managers into Washington to buttonhole Congressmen. As drafted by Benson-hating Senator Hubert Humphrey, moreover, S. 144 was a direct slap at the bedeviled Agriculture Secretary and, indirectly, at the President himself...
Alarmed. In London, one reason why the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation refused Pan American World Airways permission to schedule 1:30 a.m. jet take-offs was that citizens of Longford -a town in direct line with London Airport's No. 1 runway-had threatened to make regular 1 :30 a.m. phone calls to the Minister of Transport, airport executives and others, saying: "Good morning, did I wake...
...that faculty members were unwilling to take on the extra work "unless they know the topic thoroughly." She gave an example of a girl who wanted to write a thesis on the effectiveness of propoganda in India. Unfortunately, no one in the Political Science department felt qualified enough to direct it, and the girl had to switch majors...
Because of a Smith regulation forbiding direct competition with male schools, the men from Winthrop "will probably row with them, rather than against them." Each shell will consist of four Puritans and four Sophians. If the two schools should race against each other, however, "there is no doubt who would lose. It's brain over brawn in this sport," according to referee Blake Dennison...