Word: greener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood Theater (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Barry Fitzgerald in The Greener Point...
...Pont seeks the new frontiers, there is no limit to the legerdemain which its Wilmington wizards are constantly performing. In three years they have popped out everything from a sulphur-coated grass seed which grows greener grass, to a chemical called Erifron, which makes cotton and rayon flame resistant. They have also produced a revolutionary new insulating material called Teflon. Out of Greenewalt's old specialty, high-pressure synthesis, came some long-chain alcohols which long seemed useless, but have now made Du Pont a prime supplier of raw materials for soapless soaps (detergents). In a pilot plant...
...Barbara. She wrote to Norman suggesting that he would do well to send his daughter to another school. Andrebrook, an all-girl establishment as free of temptation as a French convent school, was recommended. Norman agreed, but his daughter persuaded him to let her have a run first in greener pastures...
...fruitless battle against wholesale revision of the parietal rules. What the supposedly senescent and slumbering law and graduate students are doing in the Graduate Center could at least be equalled by the fine flower of our student body in its tenements. The grass doesn't have to be greener on the other side of the fence. Frederick Holborn '49, 1 PA Lloyd Rudolph...
...After the 1942 season, Rickey left St. Louis for a potentially greener pasture, Brooklyn. While other clubs, waiting for the stars to return, played wartime baseball with tired old men, Rickey was signing bright young prospects to Brooklyn contracts before Uncle Sam took them away. At war's end, Rickey had the biggest batch of young baseball talent in the country. In 1947, the Old Mahatma had given Brooklyn its second pennant in 27 years...