Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together with rules for a new game called TATE & STATE. Each of Tate's dice has one of the letters S T A t E and a portrait of Mr. Cube on one of its six sides. The rules of play are like those of plain poker dice except for two special conditions. Anyone throwing Mr. Cube and T-A-t-E has achieved "free enterprise" and wins. Anyone throwing S-T-A-t-E reaches "stagnation" and automatically loses...
...second oldest symphonic organization, and Conductor Munch was a descendant of a distinguished line of "permanent" conductors. Founder Higginson believed that "the essential condition for a great orchestra is stability." Over 68 years, only nine men had shaped and polished the Boston Symphony until it was-except for Arturo Toscanini's virtuoso radio orchestra, the NBC Symphony, which is in a class by itself-the U.S.'s finest and one of the top four in the world...
...Federal Communications Commission in Washington, 49-year-old Mrs. Logan temperately asked for the substitution of "acceptable programs which would be suitable for family viewing and listening . . ." FCCommissioner Wayne Coy thanked Mrs. Logan for her report and called it a "good job." The Los Angeles stations had no comment, except for KNBH, which replied that her action would only call attention to the very things she disliked and thereby create further interest in them...
Little boasts, however, that his car has other less dubious advantages. "I travel about 100 miles a week in it, and make about 25 miles on a gallon. New tires only cost $9 and, except for a few blowouts, I haven't had any trouble to speak...
During Christmas vacation the Harvard Union and the dining halls of all Houses except Kirkland will be closed, it was learned yesterday. The Kirkland Houses dining room will remain open to all students over the holidays...