Word: ende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tell them I'm finger painting," said veteran Newspaper Cartoonist Edmund Duffy when someone recently tried to invade his comfortable retirement at the end of a long and lustrous career. In 1948, after 24 award-studded years (three Pulitzer Prizes) with the Baltimore Sun, Duffy left to try a hand at magazine cartooning for the Saturday Evening Post, drifted briefly back to newspapers-New York City's transitory Star and the Long
...painfully sprained thumb on his passing hand and a charley horse to boot when he faced tough Texas Tech. But in the fourth period, with the score tied 7-7, Meredith faded with the ball, twice wiggled free of tacklers, and floated a 31-yd. touchdown pass into the end zone. As S.M.U. went on to win, 21-13, Texas fans were proclaiming more vociferously than ever that Quarterback Meredith was college football's finest passer...
Away with Coffins. Spiraling ramps are not new in architecture. Assyrian King Sargon II wound a 6-ft. ramp around his 143-ft-tall Ziggurat at Khorsabad back in 706 B.C. What Wright did was avail himself of reinforced-concrete shell techniques to stand the structure on its narrower end, cantilever the floors inward, and top off the structure with glass, a material no ancient architect had to use on such a scale...
...feeling that to take one's own life when things are difficult is rather like running away in battle. On the other hand psychologists have made us more tolerant than we used to be ... To punish by fine or imprisonment someone who found life intolerable and tried to end it is ridiculous...
...Morgan tried to stop the panic as it had managed to do before. It headed a pool that put up a reputed $240 million to support the market. But the move had little effect. While Morgan's interests were relatively unscathed by the crash, the Depression spelled the end of concentrated banking power. The New Deal launched a campaign against "the princes of privilege." J. P. Morgan II was hauled down to Washington to appear before a whole series of investigations. Control of U.S. finance passed from Wall Street to Washington. Regulatory bodies were established, restrictive bills passed...