Word: founded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Place to Hide. In Cheektowaga, N.Y., after $10,000 was found in a paper bag in a vacant lot, the money was claimed by Mary Panek, 65, who explained: "I was going away for a few days and didn't want to leave it in the house...
...richest. He makes no bones about money and the pleasures it buys: a villa on the Riviera, good cigars, expensive paintings, luxurious travel. As he once put it: "I had no intention of living on a crust in a garret if I could help it. I had found out that money was like a sixth sense without which you could not make the most of the other five." Maugham's senses are well satisfied, and in this latest last book he allows himself that ultimate luxury: the writing of essays for pleasure alone...
...good conversationalist quietly voicing some private enthusiasms over some very good, very old brandy. His trick is to talk mostly about people and not too much about his advertised subject. The novels of Germany's Goethe make an occasion to discuss a man of genius who found it hard to keep away from a pretty woman. After a lucid introduction to Hindu religion, he describes the life of a swami who found the secret of existence in a boyhood flash of illumination and pursued a course of sainthood to his death. And by the simple process of digging...
...Wodehouse story it is perfectly natural for the cartoonist of a syndicated U.S. comic strip to find himself sharing a British beach resort with contenders in an American-type "Beautiful Babies" contest, for a New York publisher to be found naked in the hothouse of a dwelling on Wimbledon Common, or even for a member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick...
Dean von Stade termed the proposal a "fine idea," and Carl Kaysen, professor of Economics, found the proposal "reasonably appealing." Kaysen said, however, that other possible programs, like the Bursary Student program at Yale, ought to be considered. He cautioned that "we don't want to go too far with course reduction and throw courses out the window...