Word: faceted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every facet of life in the College mind and matter seemed to get a spark of energy at the beginning of this first real post-war term, a spark that is likely to be kindled, not dampened by fall, when if the predictions come true enrollments will hit an all-time high for the College...
...control of his sprawling Goliath. A widower, he lives with his daughter in the gabled house he built in San Mateo before the earthquake. "She has her guests in," he explains, "and they talk or play cards. I sit in a corner and listen to the radio." Every facet of his business still interests him. "My brain never stops," he says. "I think while I sleep...
Hags & Horses. Although the queen of the country's third largest industry has become a force to reckon with in the sport of kings, beauty is still her chief interest (she flatly denies rumors that she may sell her cosmetic business for $13 million). One small facet of that business is the farm for which her racing stable is named, Maine Chance ("I just went to Maine one summer, and liked this farm so I took a chance and bought it"). Women who want to be as consistently "winning" as her horses pay $350 a week (adjoining bath...
...first facet of this new policy related to colonial areas. For years, the U.S., remembering its own origins, has generally stood, sympathetically and vaguely, for the independence of all peoples. On the rare occasions when it had had to act, practice had not always followed precept. Last week in San Francisco, the U.S. Secretary of State announced that the U.S. now preferred, in discussing the ultimate disposition of colonies or areas under trusteeship, the word "self-government" to the word "independence." The U.S. thus sided with Great Britain and France, against Russia and China, who had wanted UNCIO...
...Hoffman, having declined an invitation to join the Harvard crew, plans to wing Wisconsin-way with a gleaming multi-facet job which may men wedding bells the' he claims otherwise. G. Grove, having previously committed himself, will assume added responsibility on this leave, and P. Harty, attorney-at-law and platoon-commander-extraordinary, will do likewise...