Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans, Joseph Green and Paul Brodtkorp, both Yale '50, Peter G. Lenahan, Dartmouth '54, Lieutenant Dudley Hall (mercifully in civilian clothes), Boston U. '52 and James B. Adler '53, were doing their native best, however, and everyone realized it. So they were accepted, permitted to listen and learn with the unkempt elect...
...Natural Science section across the hall, Andrew R. Lang, assistant professor of Metallurgy, delivered an opening lecture to five undergraduate residents, who appeared to discuss the origins of life on earth. He told his audience how life may have sprung from primitive pools of green slime, or arrived from outer space in the form of microscopic spores. The five listened...
Progress was creeping up on Long Island's famed old Deepdale Golf Club. The ranch homes of well-heeled suburbia were already encamped on its borders; soon its green and rolling acres would be split by the broad scar of an express highway. It was time to move on. But before their old bar was closed, before the silver trophies were packed for shipment, Deepdale's members decided to hold one more tournament on the trim fairways that have known such diverse golfers as William K. Vanderbilt and Dwight Eisenhower, Bing Crosby and Bobby Jones...
MAMMOTH HIGHWAY PLAN on a pay-as-you-go basis is expected to get the green light from Congress next year. The Administration has ditched General Lucius Clay's bond-financing plan in favor of a 13-year, $26 billion program financed either by increased user taxes or by a combination of taxes and tolls. Congressmen and truckers who stalled the pay-as-you-go formula this year are now reported ready to back a program financed entirely by increased user taxes, including boosts of 2? a gal. on gasoline, 2? a Ib. on tires, tubes and retreading materials...
...flashed the green light for construction of the Priest Rapids and Wanapum Dams on the Columbia River. They will be built by the Grant County (Wash.) Public Utility District, which had to fight objections of the state power commission before it could take on the job. The P.U.D. will share the $361 million cost of the Priest River Dam with the Federal Government, making the dam the first under President Eisenhower's public-private "partnership" policy...