Word: ending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recommendation 5, "that a 15 minute period be allowed at the end of each of each House function during which all House members could return to their rooms with their dates," was rejected by an 11 to 5 vote. The provision was originally included to make it easier to pick up personal belongings such as suitcases, but the Council felt that it would result in long lines in front of the sign-out desk at 12:15 and was thus infeasible...
...earnings made up for the third-period shutdown for most steel companies, they were not enough for ailing railroads. The New York Central reported a deficit for the third consecutive month, and a cut in nine months' earnings to 52? per share v. $1.56 per share at the end of June. The Pennsylvania had a $2.3 million loss in September that wiped out its eight months' profit and put the road $449,346 in the red for the first nine months. Other nine-month rail earnings: 1958 1959 New Haven $3,534,080 $7,362,154 (loss) (loss...
...Cartoonist Ronald Searle's illustrations wittily support Graves's wry treatment of the Olympians. Whether or not Graves's Iliad will endure as a satire, it is certainly the most charming translation in English since Pope's, and may also be the best. At the end of his preface, Graves promises to pour a libation of red wine "to Homer's shade, imploring pardon for the many small liberties I have taken." It seems likely that he will get his pardon from Homer, and also, as he forsees, a squall of protest from Homer...
...arises from the collision of Quakers, who (in the words of one of them) regard the body as "needed for the reproduction of Friends," and Hindus, who. Author Berry suggests, recoil in shock at the sight of a naked hide but manage nevertheless to be thoroughly friendly. In the end. as Peter stalks the python, Berry's account of the hunt entwines the reader like a jungle creeper. The death of the book's villain is a grisly reminder that horror is comedy's blood brother. "Man," one character is moved to reflect, "might be an idea...
...thought after the game that the loss had meant the end of chances for an unopposed Ivy crown. News from Philadelphia, however, indicated later that Penn, playing on its own field with the services of captain John Jerbasi, had tied Yale, 4 to 4. Thus, unless fate intervenes, a Crimson victory in the Yale encounter will still give the varsity the championship by half a game...