Word: gallatin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...making the difference. In 19 games, 6-ft.-2-in. Bill Sharman had achieved a .433 field-goal percentage, far ahead of Cousy the Magnificent, and up there with the leading giants of the league, Philadelphia's Johnston, 6 ft. 8 in., and New York's Gallatin, 6 ft. 6 in. On the foul line he missed the incredibly small total of nine out of 121 foul shots...
...Philadelphia Museum of Art, restorer of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Robert E. Lee's Stratford (Va.) home; of a stroke; in Munich, Germany. Kimball became director when the museum was only partially built, developed it into one of America's best, acquired the Gallatin Collection (e.g., Picasso's Three Musicians), the $2,000,000 Arensberg Collection (e.g., Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase...
...Albuquerque wound up its 14th annual chamber-music festival last week in the 500-seat Little Theater. The concerts are donated by Banker-Rancher Albert Gallatin Simms, onetime Congressman, in memory of his wife, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick. Each performance ends with Schumann's Piano Quintet, Op. 44 (it is Sponsor Simms's favorite). This year's guest star: top Violist William Primrose...
While profit-sharing is not a new idea (the first U.S. plan was installed in 1794 by Jefferson's Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin at his Pennsylvania glass plant), it was long opposed by labor leaders as a speed-up substitute for fair wages. Not until World War II, when profit-sharing offered a means of fattening employees' pocketbooks at a time when wages were frozen, did the plans start to spread fast...
Overcrowding in the Yard already has forced 12 freshmen to be housed this fall at Gallatin Hall of the Business School...