Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cities which have symphony orchestras a display called TIME for Music. From our standpoint, this display is designed to call attention to TIME, to our Music department and to our advertising pages. It is a quiz consisting of 24 enlargements of TIME covers, with the cover portrait replaced by famous composers from Bach to Gershwin. Attached to each cover poster is an excerpt from a story in TIME'S Music department-but omitting the composer's name. With the excerpt as a clue, passers-by are asked to pause at department store windows, read the quiz questions...
Fast as a Race Horse. The flames struck hardest at Bar Harbor, Me. (pop. 4,300), summer playground of the rich and famous on mountainous, timbered Mt. Desert (pronounced dessert) Island. All one day and all through one night, a great fire eccentrically marched and countermarched around the outskirts of the town, while hundreds of soldiers and townspeople fought to control it. In the afternoon, when the shifting wind began to blow a gale from the northwest, the fire crowned into the tops of trees and leaped forward "as fast as a race horse could run," blasting through wooded estates...
...complex. In 1886, for example, although he spanked Tufts 82-0 and Dartmouth 70-0, there was nothing he could do with Eli, who won to the tune of 29-4. In fact, the Crimson did not take one game from Yale during the Eighties, a time when the famous, and partly fictitious, "Harvard indifference" was born. There may have been a connection...
...rally next February in support of the Rogers bill for increased subsidization on the G.I. Bill, and the establishment of a political action school at Harvard with a three-day symposium next spring. Purpose of the school will be the study of political techniques and the symposium will include famous leaders of labor unions and parties...
...chemistry, established the nation's first agricultural experiment station. It was the first U.S. school to provide a post-graduate course for the Ph.D. degree. Then crusty old Elias Loomis pioneered in devising the basis for modern weather maps and Bertram Boltwood discovered ionium. Sheffield's most famous teacher: Josiah Willard Gibbs, the top mathematical physicist of his day, who laid down the laws which form the basis for modern thermodynamics...