Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What is President Wriston trying to do?" cried one Brown University alumnus. "Go back to the Middle Ages?" What had excited the alumnus was the plan for a new two-block, $10 million quadrangle, announced last week by Henry M. Wriston, as part of a long-term project to centralize student housing...
...much is known about Yuma Man, for no Yuma skeleton has yet been found. He may or may not have been an ancestor of modern Indians. He made beautiful and characteristic stone weapons, and seems to have lived not long after the glacial period. But no one knows what his clothes or shelters were like. He was certainly no stickler for public sanitation. Jumbled together on 625 square feet of ground were bones of more than 40 buffalo. Among them were fire sites and stone chips flaked off in making new weapons. Apparently Yuma Man, unmindful of smells and flies...
Golfer King, 33, who put out Turnesa, owns a 2,300-acre cattle and dairy ranch near Wichita Falls, Tex., is a deacon in the Baptist church, and describes himself as a "weekend" golfer. He flew his private plane to Rochester expecting to watch more golf than he played. Long before the finals, he was taking bismuth tablets to quiet the butterflies in his stomach. He had never been so close to a major golf title in his life, although he had accomplished the almost incredible feat of winning the Grand American trapshooting championship...
...muggy summer, only 15 shows still ran in its 30 playhouses (half as many as were running in London), and all of September promised only one new arrival. Symptomatically, it was not even the product of a Broadway rehearsal stage, but Los Angeles' long-running revue, Ken Murray's Blackouts...
...first half of 1949. For the year, Odium expects Consolidated to net from $3.5 million to $4.5 million. The Air Force, which had had to justify its choice in a series of congressional hearings (TIME, June 6 et seq.) had picked the B-36 as its No. 1 long-range bomber, and it had doubled its original order. Most of the company's $232.4 million military aircraft backlog is for the B-36 (current price: $4,700,000 apiece); military orders for the B-36 will keep Consolidated busy until...