Word: donee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quincy House will sponsor the first House arts festival in the history of the College this spring. Lasting from April 14 to 17, the festival will include exhibitions and competitions for work in the graphic arts done by Quincy members and people with some relation to the House...
Looking at the aftermath of the steel strike, some economists last week were swinging around to the opinion that for all the harm it did the economy, it also may have done some long-range good. Along with others. Chamber of Commerce's Schmidt pointed out that the postwar economy has averaged a recession, or at least a leveling in growth, every 30 months. But the steel strike was itself a recession; therefore, the normal setback that might have been expected has been delayed, and business should be good well into...
...philosopher and high Wrangler (the university's term for top mathematicians), he was close to what his father had wanted him to be, and since then, Rationalist Russell has frequently attacked religion. All the more notable is his conclusion that science can never say what ought to be done. In this view, the reader can find a reproach to the hubris of today's vociferous army of scientist-prophets, notably the late Albert Einstein in the U.S., J.B.S. Haldane in Britain, Joliot-Curie in France...
Fortunately, the author has done all his really important theorizing in italics, which makes skipping easy. The book abounds in photographs of such artifacts as farthingales, voodoo masks and inflatable brassieres, and (for scholarly contrast) there are photos showing people wearing no clothes at all. In a memorable chapter, the author decides that nudism is fine for sunbathing, bad for sex; the trouble is that it is all hide, no seek...
...Nothing like this Region Study has even been done," declared Raymond Vernon, professor of International Trade and Investment, and director of the Metropolitan Region Study. "We have spent $600,000 in grants from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefellers and a staff of more than 40 professional people have worked over three years on the project...