Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is showing 65 paintings and sculpture collected by Empire Builder James Jerome Hill, rounded up from descendants and museums for the first time since the founder of the Great Northern Railway died in 1916. A self-educated plunger who grew rich by learning fast and backing his opinions stubbornly, Jim Hill began buying paintings when he was 43, rapidly moved from sentimental genre pictures to the bucolic moodiness of France's Barbizon School and the summery scenes of Corot, in time learned to like Monet and Renoir. Among Hill's favorites were...
...built for his boss. Earl ("Red"') Blaik, the impenetrable Army line of the Blanchard-Davis era. Once asked for a statement of his philosophy, Ulcer Victim Hickman said: "When I work, I work hard; when I relax, I rest loose; and when I begin to worry, I fall fast asleep...
...declare war on you in the peaceful field of trade." Thus last November Nikita Khrushchev threw out a new and threatening challenge: a worldwide Soviet economic offensive designed to cripple U.S. trade and capture the economies of underdeveloped and uncommitted nations. Since then, Soviet economic penetration has moved so fast that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge fortnight ago warned that the U.S. may have to face the question of subsidizing its exporters to keep them in competition with the Russians...
Through time, Class Day ceremonies changed only slightly. Singing by the Glee Club, a popular event during the early part of the century, was abandoned during the twenties. Sometimes the 25th Reunion Class would present mock degrees, but there was no hard and fast rule about this. Of course, there was always the Ivy Oration and the presentation of the class banner to the freshman class by graduating seniors...
When the confetti battle broke loose a few minutes after he had finished speaking, "sweethearts and relatives were forgotten as Dr. Lowell became the main target and the 76-year-old educator frolicked about like a small boy, hurling back the balls and papers as fast as he could pick them...