Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, also knows what odds to expect on its president, who turns out to be the perfect risk. At 58, with a trim 175 Ibs. spread over his 5-ft.-10-in. frame. Shanks is lean and rosily healthy. As insurance pamphlets advise, he likes to get eight hours' rest most nights-10 p.m. to 6 a.m. He does an hour's calisthenics before eating a sensibly big breakfast. Trlis other meals are light; he tries to keep lunch within 300 calories and dinner within 700. He does not smoke, rarely drinks, and has few financial worries...
Pragmatist. In Louisville, when the bank refused payment on his G.I. insurance dividend check made out for $72,000,000,000, Harold Fleischer pondered officials' advice to "frame it or take it up with the Veterans Administration," decided...
...cancel his scheduled speech before the Forum on his controversial amendment. Thomson refused to commit his club because he felt that the HYRC, as the largest political organization in the College, was not receiving sufficient representation and that his organization should function "in a completely independent and distinct frame of reference...
...proper role of Government), one wonders whether any course at Harvard is designed to "give answers." Rather, he thinks, isn't a course supposed to inspire us to ask more questions? But in Ec 1 students are given no basis for comparison; they are exposed to no other frame of reference but that one pushed by the instructors, who almost all hold the same point of view. How then will we be able to ask the right questions? To some students it is a real imposition to be subjected to such a narrow, one-sided approach...
Equity, the all-powerful actors' union, is open to anyone who can land a paying job--and afford their initiation fee. Hence in 1952 some 83% of Equity members were unemployed. The ranks of those aspiring to frame and bright lights had been swollen by a large crop of college students interested in the arts and by thousands of veterans who had studied dramatic arts under the GI Bill...