Word: flints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moral repute has taken a tumble. Curator John Manwaring Baines of Hastings Museum found that five more antiquities that had been lent to the museum by Dawson and later bought from his widow, who sold them in good faith, were no more genuine than Piltdown man. Flint instruments proved to be of modern manufacture, and a "Roman" cast-iron statuette turned out to be a small, recent copy of a full-size statue in Rome. When not busy with antiquities, the industrious Dawson "wrote" a two-volume history of Hastings, much of which he copied out of an unpublished manuscript...
...Kellogg Center has housed as many as 62 separate professional and industrial conferences in one month. M.S.C. also gives seven TV courses: (e.g., Greek Glory, Typing, Art Appreciation), and 92 off-campus courses for credit. Among them: Organic Chemistry in Midland, Mental Hygiene in Clarkston, Public Opinion in Flint, Basic Economics in Battle Creek...
Specialists. In Flint, Mich., a demonstration of fire-fighting techniques had to be called off when firemen were unable to set their model shack ablaze...
...saved up enough to go to Big Rapids' Ferris Institute. To pay his way, he worked as a short-order cook in the Blue Front Cafe. Eager to get on in the world, he quit Ferris after two years, moved to Ma Kelleher's boarding house in Flint, where he got room and board for $3 a week. He answered an AC Spark Plug want ad for a bookkeeper, was asked in the interview what his ambition might be. Said the brash young man to his future boss: "Your job, within a year...
...Dressed for a Party." Back in Flint, Curtice weeded out the deadwood, kept the good. Under his predecessor, every section of the Buick operation went its own way, with production problems being blamed on engineering, engineering problems blamed on styling, and so on down the line. Curtice called in the heads of all departments on major decisions so that each might know the others' problems and help in their solution. He also had the ads changed to plug the theme that Buick was an auto for the young, with such headlines as DRESSED FOR A PARTY-POWERED...