Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year Herr Schacht, little the worse for wear and ever on the lookout for money, journeyed to Indonesia. The newborn island republic was hoping for an economic wizard to reinvigorate its lagging export trade and sickly home economy. Schacht and his prim wife put up at the rambling Hotel des Indes in hot, grubby Jakarta (with the government paying all his expenses, about $20,000). For three months he labored...
...History and Literature, died April 1950. Matthiessen was teaching the undergraduate Shakespeare course, English 123, at that time. He also carried a very heavy teaching and research load in American literature, and it is understood that the English and History and Literature departments are still on the on the lookout for a man in that field...
...wrote some songs, and one of them, sung by Marian Anderson, finally got his name on a Carnegie Hall program. Among his other compositions he wrote two symphonies, and last season one of them brought him further recognition. Dimitri Mitropoulos, a conductor always on the lookout for new works for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, studied the score of Swanson's Short Symphony (his second), gave it a first performance in Carnegie Hall, and later included it in his Edinburgh Festival program. It was rich in melody and vigorous in rhythm, pleasing if not musically adventurous...
Trinity has been on the lookout for a new rector since June, when the Rev. Frederic S. Fleming, 65, announced his retirement after serving the 254-year-old parish since 1932. Trinity is traditionally a steppingstone to the bishopric of New York, the church's richest diocese. High Churchman Heuss, who built up his department of Christian education from a staff of two to a staff of 50 in four years, has already been mentioned as a possible second Suffragan Bishop of New York...
Today, thousands of admirers still pay homage at the tomb of Buffalo Bill on Lookout Mountain near Denver. But not one man in a hundred thousand knows the name of the remarkable, gnomelike promoter without whom Buffalo Bill would never have existed. The Great Rascal is Ned Buntline's first full-dress biography, and the galloping glitter of his career more than makes up for the limping prose in which Author Monaghan describes...