Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council Combined Charities drive started off encouragingly last night with contributions above $2,000 predicted for the first night of solicitation...
Early reports showed the appeal off to a good start in the Houses and Wigglesworth, although returns from the Yard are "terrible," said Peter J. Solomon '60, co-chairman of the Drive...
Birgit Nilsson: Opera Arias (Angel). In her first American release, rising Swedish Soprano Nilsson sings selections from Wagner and Verdi in a big, flashing, vibrant voice long on power and drive, sometimes short on dramatic intensity...
...Zealand's engineers made a close study of the world's only other big geothermal power plant, at Larderello in central Italy. Larderello's steam has been used since 1913 to drive power plants. New Zealand's steam needs less treatment to free it of foreign matter and seems to be far more plentiful. Though authorities at first hesitated to schedule expensive powerhouses in the geothermal region for fear that the steam wells might peter out, nothing of the sort has happened; after eight years the oldest of the steam wells is screaming as loud...
...Hulot's Holiday) takes a solemn view of the comic art and the contemporary scene. "Look what is happening to us," he glooms. "This specialization. Depersonalization is taking all the human meaning out of our daily life. A man used to be proud of the way he could drive. Now the car drives itself. A mother used to be proud of her cakes. Now they bake themselves. A boy used to be proud of [the playthings] he invented. Now he is buried under factory-made toys...