Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prairie Plans. Kansas got to know and respect Murphy's energy and initiative when he became dean of the School of Medicine in 1948. He promptly put into effect a plan for grass-roots action to get more doctors in service in prairie townships. (The communities raise money to provide quarters and equipment for a doctor, who may rent them or buy on time.) The "Kansas Plan" was copied in several states...
Dwight Eisenhower, as the new president of Columbia University, got to know about Franklin Murphy from brother Milton Eisenhower, then president of Kansas State College. Ike liked the Kansas Plan because it started at the grass roots and demanded the participation of individual citizens. It was not long before Milton Eisenhower arranged for Murphy to meet the general; later, Murphy put his ideas on paper...
...Movie Producer Merian C. Cooper (Grass, Chang, King Kong), who is devoting most of his time to the new process, says that Cinerama can do anything regular movies can do, and do it better. "The basis of drama doesn't change at all, but the method of presenting it changes radically," he says. Instead of moving the camera's eye, Cooper plans to direct the viewer's eye to the most dramatic spot. With panning made unnecessary, the scope of Cinerama's screen will increase the effectiveness of straight-on shots. Other techniques will have...
...Chinese oracle" ordered Crowley and his handful of disciples to Sicily. Here, Crowley, his ears pierced and hung with rings, "painted and wrote . . . smoked opium, sniffed snow . . . ate grass (hashish), and [took] laudanum, veronal, and anhalonium." He also tried to referee the frequent battles which took place among his concubines...
When you climb out of the IRT subway at the Morningside Heights station, you are flanked on one side by the noisy, dirty Amsterdam area of New York, and on the other by Columbia University, a polyglot jumble of tall buildings and patches of grass, watching indifferently over the bustling metropolitan scene...