Word: dreamed
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Nucleus of a Dream. Michigan State hopes to get to the goal by developing a top-drawer liberal arts college to match its excellent technical schools. Oakland has the plant and the men for a good start. Most of the sweeping 2,000-acre campus was given to M.S.U. two years ago by the widow of Auto Tycoon John Dodge and her husband, Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson. Value of the land and the 125-room Wilson mansion: about $15 million. When the Wilsons added another $2,000,000 to the gift, astute M.S.U. President John Hannah appointed Vice President Durward...
Eleven Plus. But the lofty dream is still far from perfection. Last week, as 7,000,000 children trooped back to classes, flaws in the system loomed as a talking point in Britain's impending election. Both Conservatives and Laborites promise to build more schools, provide more teachers; the Conservatives talk in terms of a $960 million program. The school system can use that much and more. One out of ten rural schools in England is still lit by gas lamps; science facilities are woefully inadequate. After 15 years of work, teachers get a maximum salary...
...growing dream of the average American is to send his children to college. What about the hard reality? Last week, after a nationwide survey for the Ford Foundation, Pollster Elmo Roper summed up the aspirations and posed some nagging financial questions. Items...
...reach quite young what many people consider the dream life of America: success by my own efforts, a stream of dollars to spend, a penthouse in New York, forays to Hollywood, the companionship of pretty women, all before I was 24 ... There I was in the realms of gold . . . But even as I lived this conventional smart existence of inner show business, and dreamed the conventional dreams, it all seemed thin...
...been played for some reason by a woman, Miss Harris was captivatingly pixyish. Eric Portman might have brought more bravado to the traditional double role of the Father and Captain Hook. Ellis Rabb provided an unbeatably riotous Smee, an elaboration of the Starveling he did in Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford a year ago. The production employed the original music of John Crooke, which Barrie himself had termed "delightful." And special equipment was set up to allow four characters at once to fly through...