Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lloyd Wright, mother of his first six children, including California Architect John Lloyd Wright, author of My Father Who Is On Earth, and Mrs. Catherine Baxter, mother of Cinemactress Anne Baxter; in Santa Monica, Calif. "Young husband-to-be just twenty-one, the young wife-to-be not yet eighteen," wrote Frank Lloyd Wright in the split-level prose of his autobiography. "Wedding [1890] on a rainy day. More resembled a funeral. The sentimentality I was learning to dread came into full flower. The heavens weeping out of doors -all weeping indoors." The Wrights were separated in 1910, and divorced...
...Washington I'm pretty much exploring my way at the moment. For the first eighteen months of the work under the grant, I'll probably be concerned with knitting together Western assistance to India." India has just had two poorly organized five-year plans, she explains, and is about to develop a third. "There is no reason why a Marshall Plan Commission couldn't be set up to help the next plan," she says, and thereby help develop a better organized and potentially more successful program. "As neighbors, this is what we ought to do--not wait until there...
...pays the top wages for kitchen workers, along with Yale. A new contract last year played an important part in the board hike. But, at the same time, Harvard provides less expensive meals than Yale, especially when the policy of seconds is considered. Yalies shell out about $520 for eighteen meals--which, according to Tucker, comes to over $602 for a full 21-meal schedule, and the unfortunate Elis cannot have seconds on meat. Students at Princeton pay $560 yearly for a 21-meal week, but these meals are catered by Howard Johnson's, which uses non-unionized labor...
...Eighteen crews have been rowing from Newell Boat House, but the number will be cut shortly to about 13, as the various squads pare down for practice over spring vacation. Currently the crews are out on the Charles six days a week...
...malcontents; nine of the men are dissatisfied with their jobs and seven with their home life, but almost 400 graduates are pleased with both. Only 15 report that they love their wives less than when they were married. Perhaps coincidentally, there have been 15 cases of ulcers. Eighteen of the men have been under psychoanalysis. ¶ At least on their own estimate, they are a restrained lot; 140 drink more than they did in college (Scotch is preferred to bourbon or gin), but 137 drink less, and 27 sit stoutly on the wagon. Card playing is preferred...