Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fertilizer & Match Heads. Some states and cities have already taken action, but teen-age rocketeers are hard to discourage. While liquid-fueled rockets are top fashion with amateurs, only a few of them are built. They are too complicated and expensive. But news has got around that respectable rockets can be made out of metal tubing closed at one end and filled with a slow-burning solid fuel...
From then on it is easy. The wily Howe and the sturdy cripple combine to fashion a comeback, and the younger man continues to grow until the climax of his nominating speech for Al Smith in 1924. Bellamy now shows a Roosevelt who retains the sharpness that had given him profound early successes, but has learned to temper it with patience...
...State University of New York in 1952, he took over what is probably the most outlandish educational hodgepodge in the nation. From his Albany office, which is not even on a campus, he watches over two medical schools, a forestry and a maritime college, four community colleges, a fashion institute of technology, six technical institutes, six more technical-and-agricultural institutes, twelve teachers colleges. There are also colleges of ceramics, agriculture, home economics, industrial and labor relations, and veterinary medicine (operated through special contracts by Cornell and Alfred Universities). There is only one Ph.D. program (in forestry), and only...
...Journal's own birth, less than two months after the Battle of Gettysburg, was hastened by the irresponsible fashion in which the daily press covered the Civil War. Under Editor William Conant Church, onetime chief war correspondent for the New York Times, who had served as a captain in the Union Army, the Army and Navy Journal in its first issue lodged a baleful eagle atop Page One, promised that the paper would be devoted without bias to "sound military ideas and to the elevation of the public service." The weekly, which expanded its name to the Army, Navy...
...questions are: Who will get the presidency, and who will land the Georgia peach when she leaves her husband? Henry gets her, but only for a night. Author Barr is not so academic that he forgets to undress and dress her, striptease fashion. Her final disposition, and the outcome of the struggle for the presidency are fairly routine. Along the way, U.S. students are denounced as dumb fat-cats, professors are cast as unimaginative hacks, trustees are pilloried as cynical businessmen whose least interest is education, and foundations are pictured as troughs fought over by piggish college presidents. Being...