Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Business School graduates a bit of a boost at the start, Harvard education can pay off at promotion time. Surveys have shown that the Business School man, even without the training in routines, isn't at all slow in adjusting himself to his first job, thanks to his indirect study of business as a whole...
...brave new committee, which has an indirect connection with the Council will be co-chaired by David C. Poskanzer '50, who also ran the group which produced the Poskanzer Report, and Dominique Wyant '50. Sometime next week they will select ten "outstanding men" from the University, not necessarily undergraduates, to make up the small group...
There are no turnstiles on the Metro. Tickets are sold at booths, but most riders buy tickets in advance by the book. The passengers descend to the platforms by long ramps or escalators. Everything is brightly lighted, frequently by indirect ceiling lighting. An attendant tears off a part of the ticket, as in a U.S. movie house. Most of the subway attendants and some of the drivers are women...
Taylor, who just recently became goalie, broke up a series of corner and indirect penalty kicks throughout the first half, enabling the Crimson offense to adjust itself...
...Manhattan apartment early one morning last week, Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy awoke with a start. As he flipped a bedside switch, soft indirect light spread over walls made of egg-crate fiber and over a group of improbable furnishings− a Tahitian drum, Congo ceremonial sword, Chinese helmet, Moroccan fly-switch, Senegalese war hatchet and grotesque Zulu masks. Loewy, who gets some of his best ideas in bed (and no nightmares from the masks), reached for the ever-present memo pad beside his pillow and scribbled a cryptic note: Why not a suction cap for shaving-cream tubes...