Word: happiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teacher is no happier about this than the pupil. Denied the opportunity to control via the birch rod, quite at sea as to the mode of operation of the few techniques at her disposal, she spends as little time as possible on drill subjects and eagerly subscribes to philosophies of education which emphasize material of greater inherant interest...
...history have struck a happier balance with their age or won richer rewards in return than Flemish Artist Peter Paul Rubens, master of Europe's baroque style at its 17th century peak. A staunch Roman Catholic, unquestioning Royalist, shrewd businessman, Rubens was both a spectacularly successful diplomat, the trusted adviser of kings, and the most sought-after painter of his day, whose masterpieces today are treasured by every major museum of Europe. In an exhibition of his oil sketches and drawings, collected by Harvard's Fogg Museum and Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library and on display...
President Loew had news calculated to put stockholders in a happier frame of mind. To cut costs, President Loew had abolished all profit-sharing contracts for executives, eliminated retirement plan payments for everyone making more than $500 a week, cut in half the payments for other employees. Earnings in the second quarter this year would be up, he predicted-more than enough to cover the 25? quarterly dividend. Loew's hopes to put out better movies, he said, and is also studying TV possibilities. M-G-M has 1,000 sound features, plus another 1,100 sound shorts adaptable...
Last week Benny seemed happier than he had been in a long time. Standout sidemen in Benny's new band: Trombonist Urbie Green and Drummer Mousie Alexander, a graduate, surprisingly, of the contrapuntal Sauter-Finegan band. The arrangements were mostly the old Fletcher Henderson "killer-dillers" that Benny made famous in the '30s, and the swinging improvisations did not seem so improvised any more. But this exhibit from the past-venerable enough to have a movie made about his life-was still able to show a new generation that there is something besides Dixieland, "progressive," and the noise...
They reminisced about their college days as they walked through the Yard. One of them, described as an "old sentimental brute," lovingly recalled happier days on the top floor of Thayer...