Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history-making Schuman Plan to pool West Europe's coal & steel resources -little more than a dream two years ago, a far-off scheme initialed by six hesitant foreign ministers a year ago-became a fact. Already ratified by France, Germany and the Benelux nations, it was approved by Italy, sixth and final member...
...sharp critical study, Emile Zola. Wilson's summary: Zola was "one of the great cumbrous, magnificent pithecanthropi of 19th century literature . . . the close companion of Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky, a little less than them . . . but having ... a strange clarity of direct vision which their great fusions of the dream kingdom and the waking world obliterate...
...aged 29, he was demobbed from the British army with the rank of major. Like many another veteran, he was dead set against living out the peace at a desk; unlike most vets, he had a few thousand pounds of capital. He spent some of it to make one dream come true: he bought a small island in the Hebrides, with salmon rights and a commercial fishery. It was while exploring the neighboring waters of his little kingdom that he first saw "a ripple with a dark center" breaking the surface-a ripple that grew into "a huge...
...Dream Come True. The superliner is the dreamboat of William Francis Gibbs, 65, crack naval architect and famed designer of World War II's Liberty ships, and every type of naval ship from destroyer to battleship. He sold the dream to the Government and U.S. Lines Co.; the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry dock Co. made it come true...
...University Hall and then plead their case to a Dean they may never have seen before; no longer will honors candidates monopolize the fruits of tutorial. With the appointment by the Board of Overseers this morning of Lowell and Leverett's Allston Burr Senior Tutors. President Lowell's dream, seems practically realized. The College has taken two steps--decentralization of the Dean's Office and revival of tutorial for all concentrators in the five largest departments...