Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of woodsman cosmopolite, expert cook and reluctant pan washer, heating hors d'oeuvres over a Japanese habachi, basting squab chicken on a spit before the open fire, sitting outside on the rocks sipping cognac, watching and identifying birds, staring out across the grey waters he had known...
...music, both Samuel Barber and Carlos Chavez, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, are strong candidates, and in the money-raising department--known officially as distinguished service to the University--H. Irving Pratt '26, the new Program Director, and a number of big givers are in the running...
Anybody who tries to formulate some "definitive" conclusions about the 1959 Harvard baseball team, when it still has five games left on its schedule, ought to have his head examined. Such an attempt represents a most flagrant instance of that hazardous occupation known as Climbing-Out-on-a-Limb. And it is only with a weather eye on the ground below that this writer dares venture out even a few inches toward the uncertain fringes...
...House, founded in 1525 by Cardinal Wolsey and later called Aedes Christi (House of Christ), is perhaps Oxford's best-known college. It is famed among Oxonians for the university's richest undergraduates, among tourists for its magnificent hall and spacious quadrangle. As dean, Dr. Simpson will move into an official residence stocked with prized paintings and carvings, one of Oxford's stateliest mansions...
...chances are still long. Only one wildcat field in 42 produces 1,000,000 bbl., and costs are so steep that a million-barrel field barely pays for itself. With risks growing higher and winnings less, fears have cropped up that the U.S., with only a twelve-year known reserve, will run dry of oil. Oilady Knowles disagrees: "Ever since Edwin Drake's discovery 100 years ago, there have been fears of a shortage. Each time the cry of alarm was raised, the explorers' reply was a new wave of discoveries...