Word: linke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arguing against Dogherty's position, Dennis D. Barber '60, pointed out that "we don't exist to repay favors to the student body for the money we receive." The Council's link with the students, he said, was "one of ideas rather than money...
...second DC-3 and, Viscount included, the third Cubana airlines plane that Castro captured in as many weeks. He thus 1) deprived Cubana of nearly one-fourth of its planes, worth $1,160,000; 2) helped sever the government's air link to beleaguered Santiago, already virtually cut off by land; and 3) provided himself with the nucleus of an air transport force to service rebel columns marauding in Camagüey and Las Villas provinces...
Patate (adapted by Irwin Shaw from the French of Marcel Achard) was a big Paris hit, though nothing in the quickly folding Broadway version seemed to link it with Paris at all. It is a tale of two men, a heel who has grown rich and his down-at-heel patate or fall guy. When Patate learns that the heel has become his adopted daughter's lover, he at last has a chance to even up the score; but as top dog, he proves the worst flop...
Sales of home sewing machines have more than doubled since 1948, to about 1,500,000 a year, because the new machines embroider, darn, quilt, overcast, link two edges without overlapping, sew on buttons, make buttonholes-do virtually everything except dry cleaning. These wonders are mainly attributable to the invasion of foreign machines (about 1,000,000 a year), such as Italy's Necchi, which ten years ago caught staid old Singer with its slip showing. The new gadgets on Necchi and other machines shrank Singer's sales in the U.S. from its two-thirds grip...
Kearns noted that the new link between the Music Department and the orchestra would "roughly parallel the relationship of the Department to the Glee Club." It would involve, he added, a change in the written constitution...