Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tuesday's opening program David Gross '60 will perform as the feature work the first movement from Beethoven's Sonata in F Minor, Opus 57, the Apassionata. Other words will be: Bach, Prelude and Fugue in F minor; Brahms, Intermezzo in E, Opus 118 # 2. Landon Young '58 of Adams House will perform Schumann's Symphonic Etudes on Tuesday, April...
...told, with life insurance policies for five out of every eight Americans, the U.S. insurance companies this year will see their assets push past $100 billion-three times the funds of U.S. savings banks, more money than the gross national product of West Germany, France and The Netherlands combined. Total life insurance in force: $415 billion...
...fact-memory exam has one justification--that grades are intended only to show how much has been learned, and that consequently the examination itself need not be a learning experience. This argument rationalizes sloth in writing an exam, but even at its best it has gross defects. The most serious is that it presupposes accuracy of grading. Examinations with meaningless grades still have a point if the test itself teaches; if the exam is only a measuring rod, then it stands or falls with its accuracy...
However their success came about, Patience and Prudence are sitting pretty under the money tree, will gross some $100,000 this year on records alone (Liberty Records, which zoomed into the big time on the unexpected success of Julie London's Cry Me a River, is looking to the sisters for a big share of its 1957 profits). Mclntyre has turned down Las Vegas, movie and TV offers for the girls-except for one from Perry Como. Rumors were about that P. & P. were grown women whose voices had been trick-recorded, and Daddy wanted to show...
SHIPBUILDING RACE is being won by Japan. Britain has fallen out of lead for first time in peacetime history. Jumping up from third place, Japanese yards last year more than doubled output, launching 325 merchant ships for total of 1,746,429 gross tons v. 275 vessels of 1,383,387 tons for Britain. Ninth-place U.S. yards steamed up to 169,076 tons v. 73,004 tons...