Word: georgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building's exterior (see picture) will be in the same red-brick Georgian style as the north facade of the existing structure...
...Louis, a ruptured abdominal blood vessel unexpectedly struck down Joseph Pulitzer II, 70, son and namesake of the founder of the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 387,398) and the former New York World. Twenty-seven hours later, at Wheaton, Ill., in the splendor of his 35-room Georgian mansion, death after a two-year illness came to Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, boss of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 892,058) and nominal boss of its Manhattan cousin, the Daily News (circ...
...weeks before the December 1953 execution of Lavrenty Beria, Stalin's fellow Georgian who became boss of the Soviet secret police. Foreign Minister Molotov gave a big party at the old Spiri-donovka Palace in Moscow. Except for Malenkov, Khrushchev and Voroshilov, all the Soviet leaders were there, rubbing shoulders with several hundred foreign diplomats and newsmen. In a corner of the ornate reception room, Politburocrats matched toasts with the ambassadors of Britain, France, Red China and the U.S., and for once vodka seemed to relax the occupationally tight-mouthed...
Mold & Wilt. A former Tennessee schoolteacher who got a Ph.D. from Harvard and became associate director of the Rockefeller-founded General Education Board. Edens has kept his two campuses (Gothic for men, Georgian for women) on a steady, upward course. He runs one of the top forestry schools in the nation, one of the ranking medical schools in the South. He has the 13th largest (1,150,000 volumes, 1,550,000 manuscripts) university library in the U.S., and though his law school is still trying to catch up, his flourishing divinity school is one of the South...
Begun as a sport by aristocrats in the 17th century, scientific bell ringing fell into disrepute during Georgian times because it raises a great thirst in a man, and ringers went oftener from the belfry to the pothouse than to the church. But now, change ringing is having a revival, sparked by the interest of mathematicians and scientists.* Last week England was agitated by some big bell news: the attempt by eight veteran bell ringers in the Midlands factory town of Loughborough to set a modern change-ringing record...