Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Funds for low-interest student loans, to be administered by colleges and universities. Institutions could receive up to $250,000 a year, would be required to match at least 25% of federal funds with their own money...
...funnel handsome sums into the support of music. When Norman decided to give California some really fine summer music ("the kind the concert manager can't afford to offer"), he thought of the perfect acoustics provided by the gently sloping Masson vineyards, in which he has a part interest. (The Masson estate was the scene of Anna Held's notorious champagne bath at the turn of the century.) The Fromms hired the San Francisco Symphony's Solo Violinist Ferenc Molnar (no kin to the late playwright) as series director, promptly sold out 500 folding seats for each...
Taste for Gingerbread. Some Muscovites were astonished, some were critical, and all who came seemed interested. A group of women construction engineers found the simple, graceful lines of modern architecture distasteful, said they preferred Russian gingerbread. They failed to find esthetic interest in chimneys or fireplaces, passed them off as backward and primitive. All were amazed by the low-cost housing, though some skeptically assumed that it represented a dream of the future, not an existing fact...
While Manzù says that form-and not religion-is his chief interest, the church has been a major factor in his career. His interest in art was awakened in the church in his native city of Bergamo, Italy, across the Alps from
...little" magazines have fallen on thin times. Published in Paris attics or Greenwich Village cellars, printed on butcher paper, and usually as short-lived as May flies, little magazines were the focus and the forum of the experimental '20s, awaited by literati with breathless interest for the latest chapter of James Joyce, the newest obscurity of Ezra Pound, the next outrageous typographical innovation devised by e.e. cummings...