Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industries that have grown up around the airplane during its half-century of existence new provide work for over half a million people. In the midst of the growth of these industries, a striking change has taken place in the attitude of the public toward aviation. Once considered a dream of impractical man, aviation today has an honored place among vocations and professions...
...ambitious scholars, thesis writers, and foreign students who find a Christmas vacation spent at home a dream to be contemplated but not realized, the Eliot House dining hall will remain open. Meals will be provided for all days of the winter recess, beginning this Sunday...
...within the College originated in Mr. Lowell's mind as far back as the 1880's when he presented a paper before a club in Boston. In 1907 in an address at Yale he mentioned the desirability of "breaking the undergraduate body" into smaller groups. The realization of this dream was made possible by the magnificent gift of Mr. Edward S. Harkness, a graduate of Yale, who turned up in University Hall to make his offer on an eventful sunny afternoon in November...
From the days of the dime novel through the era of soap opera, U.S. romantics have dreamed of inheriting an estate and a title in Great Britain. Early this year the dream came true for 60-year-old Adrian Ivor Dunbar, a handyman from Upper Fairmount, Md. Adrian left England more than 40 years ago, made his way to the U.S. in slow stages via Australia and Canada, married a comely widow, fathered two sons (both now in the U.S. Army) and in 1939 became a U.S. citizen. Last January, at the deaths of two cousins whom he had never...
...thousands of bright-cheeked 4-H* Club members, a grand championship at a big livestock show is a headier dream than flying a rocket to the moon. Last week, at the top-billed International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago's International Amphitheater, the coveted purple ribbon went to Lone Star, a Hereford owned by 18-year-old Sue White of Big Spring, Texas, the third girl to win the award in the show's 54-year history...