Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plays a reporter who happens to be in a boarding house when a beautiful young woman is discovered dead there. He is struck by her beauty, and makes off with her address book before the usual cluck D. A. arrives. Using the address book, Ladd sniffs around trying to find something about the girl's family, friends, and past. In the course of this snooping, he bumps into a goodly number of unsavory characters, as well as a couple who are mildly savory...
First task of the committee, which may take three to four years to complete its survey, will be to consider just what is the "whole man" and what kind of human being the Harvard education is intended to produce. Next, the investigators will attempt to find out what actually does happen to a man as a result of his total four year experience in the College...
...Brokenshire earns about $100,000 a year. He has a house in Manhattan, a country place on Long Island, and is buying "all the insurance and annuities I can find." Says he: "The money means something to a man who's been through two bankruptcies. But the important thing is that I feel my experience is helping people-not just in A.A. but over...
...middle-class English girls, except that she was allowed to spend as much time dancing as she liked, and had a governess to tutor her in her other lessons. In 1927, when the family lived briefly in Louisville while Papa Hookham studied American cigarette-making machinery, Margaret could find no ballet teachers, took tap-dancing lessons instead...
Then the family moved to China. In Shanghai, it was easy to find good Russian teachers. One of them, George Goncharov (who now teaches at Sadler's Wells), recalls that "directly I saw her I knew she had a ballerina's head. Her face-she was very attractive with big, dark eyes-seemed to talk to me. She held herself beautifully. She was always somehow intent, as though she had some idea that she knew what she was about...