Word: glamourizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...room become a pantheon for so diverse and distinguished a group. They will be joined by the editors of TIME and other guests, and the toastmaster will be TIME'S Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce. We anticipate quite an evening-a coming together of some whose beauty, glamour and force of personality have made them stand out; some whose skills are athletic and others political; some effacing ones whose achievements are intellectual and solitary; some whose quiet laboratory work brought them recognition; and others with the temperament to seize and dazzle crowds...
...Even the biggest and most reputable of brokerage houses were at times extremely careless. Proceeding on only scant and unchecked information, branches of Mer rill Lynch and Shearson, Hammill & Co., among others, pushed some high-flying glamour issues that soon collapsed. Among them: Aquafilter, U.S. Automatic Merchandising Corp...
...time when most of the glamour stocks have lost their charm, a company with the distinctive name of Xerox still holds on to its appeal. Xerox owes all of its astonishing market success to a complicated, desk-sized machine prosaically called the 914 Office Copier. There is nothing prosaic about what the 914 does: without muss, fuss, delay or extensive training of an operator, it makes copies on ordinary paper of almost anything that will fit on its Qin. by 14-in. plate - including a child's doll. Last week, thanks to the 914. Xerox stock closed...
Before the Meredith incident, Ole Miss was a typical Southern university. While almost every student, some more reluctant than other, admitted that he was there to get an education, few confined that education to "book learning." The social life of the campus, created largely by the glamour and spectacle of big-time college football and a well-established fraternity system, was an integral part of the average student's definition of "education...
20th Century Scholarship. Today, with bright U.S. collegians avid for graduate study, the Rhodes plan is losing some of its glamour. One Oxford don argues that "there can be no doubt that a Marshall Scholarship is better than a Rhodes. I don't say the boys are of better caliber; the scholarship itself is better attuned to the 20th century. Today a scientist might well want to avoid Oxford...