Word: leos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently discovered manuscript of Leo Tolstoy advising all young men to resist military conscription is being published in the February issue of The Atlantic Monthly and given to Houghton Library by the magazine...
...rifleman when a chunk of Communist shrapnel ripped his right shoulder to the joint; back in Michigan as a civilian, the Negro high school graduate was unable to pass physical examinations at either Cadillac Motors or Detroit Edison, and reluctantly began drawing disability pay. First Lieut. Leo Glover, 26, won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart near the DMZ as a Marine air controller, then turned his aerial expertise into a job as a flight engineer for Trans World Airlines in Kansas City, Mo.-but nearly busted up a cocktail lounge one night when some drunks refused...
...observations in 1950, he patiently peered through a variety of homemade telescopes for eleven years without finding anything new. He was on the verge of surrendering and concentrating on his $150-per-month job as guitar instructor when he spotted his first new comet in the constellation of Leo...
...Others: Leo Cherne, Research Institute of America; Harry D. Gideonse, New School for Social Research; William W. Lockwood, Princeton; Richard L. Park, University of Michigan; Guy J. Pauker, Rand Corp.; Lucian Pye, M.I.T.; I. Milton Sacks, Brandeis University; Paul Seabury, University of California; Fred von der Mehden, University of Wisconsin; and Robert E. Ward, University of Michigan...
Making statements about Leo Tolstoy is like pouring a fifth of vodka into the Volga. Academic theses, the complex configurations of criticism, even psychology's intimate probes are quickly engulfed by Tolstoy's turbulent, enigmatic genius...