Word: lee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...announcement in January 1930 that Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, would retire at the end of the year didn't create the stir that a similar one about the great Charles T. Copeland had a few years before, but nonetheless it was the end of an era. Perry was the type of teacher that his students seldom forgot, and years afterward they could remember the inspiration received from his courses. In May, the CRIMSON sadly noted the loss of "the human quality which he never sacrificed for pedagogical catchword or scholastic obscurity, his ability to give life...
...Come Back (Peggy Lee; Decca). A rocking blues that turns out to be really blue. Wonderful Peggy starts out confidently, but quickly sinks into a throat-catching mood, using a high, thin voice of ultimate sadness. "Hold out, baby," she keens. "I'll be back...
...full tilt toward a blowoff last winter. It was provoked when it learned that Air Force commanders (dressed in Bermuda shorts that the Air Force is introducing as its summer uniform) had staged a remarkable public-relations session in Puerto Rico. Among those on hand was Brigadier General Robert Lee (God Is My Co-Pilot) Scott, fired with zeal in his new job as information director for the Air Force. Scott had prepared a slambang, let-out-all-stops press campaign, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Strategic Air Command and aimed at proving to the U.S. public once...
...brigade more instrumental than any other in repulsing the main attack"; Ulysses Grant, daring, dazzling, slashing through the sleet against Fort Donelson without benefit of orders: 'Wo terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works"; Robert E. Lee, the superb exemplar, bareheaded astride Traveller at Spotsylvania, held back from leading the charge: "General Lee to the rear, General Lee to the rear"; Phil Sheridan, little god of war, red-faced and raging beneath his fork-tailed battle flag along the rutted road to Appomattox: "Now smash...
Thors said he had not read the magazine, but had heard about it from others. He denied i.e.'s argument that the clubs were of no value to the College. David S. Lee '56, president of the A.D., called the article "rather amusing...