Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deft gesture at passing the buck, the mayor and the city council set up a Committee of Fifteen (five councilmen, ten citizens) to look into the matter. Last March, the committee recommended a $5,000,000 increase, insisted that the money could be raised by more strenuous efforts to collect taxes and a more efficient municipal operation generally...
Most of the pilgrims indeed looked for gaiety-or for that vague value, romance (of which Americans never seem to get enough at home). Some were going, as Emerson put it, "to learn what man can" -to be humbled or inspired by a culture of which their own was part and product. Some went in search of clarity in a confusing world, and some simply went for a look at their father's house...
...Palomar Mountain last week to dedicate man's newest wonder, the 200-inch telescope. They were told that the giant eye would first be turned on the distant nebulae to test Astronomer Edwin Hubble's theory of the exploding universe. Dr. Hubble's first look at the Corona Borealis cluster (nebulae 120 million light-years away) astounded him. "We had hoped," said Hubble, "that the 200-inch would be this good...
...included the Governor of the Colony, said, "It is lawful to resist the chief magistrate if the state cannot otherwise be preserved," and a Harvard graduation became one of the first sounding boards for the American Revolution. Now, very much as two hundred years ago, a lot of people look to the Harvard Yard on the second Thursday of June. The dross and the libations have been diverted to other days of the year; the original austerity of the exercises remains...
Meanwhile Valpey and his assistants are already scheming about next season and have already perused certain selected movies made at last year's Cornell, Army and Columbia games. Crimson coaches will also get one look at the 1948 Columbia team on September 26 and two looks at Cornell before Harvard plays them on October 2 and 9. During the summer, Valpey and aides will look at more opponents' movies, analyze Crimson spring practice films, and pick the 50 men who will be asked back to pre-season fall practice. Others are welcome, but must pay their...