Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real fans are indeed a curious bunch. H. L. Gold, the editor of Galaxy--he describes himself as one of the few objective people in the field--talks about them like this: "All of them are to be avoided. They hinder more than they help. They're non-judicious, non-objective screwballs. They can't see any other point of view." Gold admits that he personally has viewpoints. "But I'm not dogmatic about them," he adds...
...house soccer yesterday, Dunster swamped Dudley, 7-0 and Adams beat Leverett, 1-0. Lowell stands in second place, close behind the Puritans, with a 5-1-1 record. Kirkland and Dunster are in third and the Gold Coasters and Elephants are tied for fifth...
...Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Scholar Bautier announced his findings: Henri Courtois, a onetime notary's clerk and one of the shadiest characters of the 19th century, had done a land-office business in the faking of ancient documents,*exacting a fee of 40,000 gold francs ($10,000) apiece for his services. All 250 of the documents which he had produced for submission to King Louis Philippe were forgeries...
...excavate Babylon. In the process, they unearthed the remains of the Tower of Babel. The scientists were able to calculate that it had been 295 ft. high, or about as high as the Statue of Liberty. The Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon with "spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones" had often been thought a pious tale until archaeologists uncovered the ruins of Sheba in Yemen in 1951, found indication that the kingdom's chief trade route ran through Israel. This threw new light on the Queen's visit: it was probably...
...whole thing off. The current production is no more than a very competent one; it cannot convey a needed sense of grand-staircased crescendoes and crystal-chandeliered wit. As Magnus, Maurice Evans has his real virtues, and the right polished utterance, but for parry-and-thrust he uses a gold-headed cane instead of a rapier, and he seems in manner more tutorial than ironic...