Word: looming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crazy Horse, mounted on a wild stallion, would loom even larger than the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt on nearby Mount Rushmore, which Ziolkowski helped Gutzon Borglum blast. With no Government money, as Borglum had, Ziolkowski hoped to finance his work by mining the mountain's beryl and feldspar as he went along and selling Indian souvenirs to curious visitors. It would take him 30 years, he guessed last week, to whittle Crazy Horse...
...long run and the long view, said Dewey, reconstruction was a straight business proposition and should not be left in the hands of "social planners who do not know a loom from a corn-husker." Said he, with an eye on his business-minded audience: "It is time we got business men into a business...
...reason was Siqueiros' bold use of bold materials. Industrial enamels like Peroxylin and Vinylite he applied, sometimes with a spray gun, to Masonite and Bakelite. They made his paintings loom bright and powerful as new trucks. But there was a deeper reason: Siqueiros had at last taken Eisenstein's advice and ditched the propaganda art of his own manifesto. Illustrative documentary painting of social injustice might be fine for educating the masses, but by now it bored Siqueiros...
...last year's 44-college meet at Franklin Field. Michigan State was second and the Crimson and Penn State tied for third. Varsity javelin thrower Don Thimble won his event and will be back on the firing line this spring. Trimble, along with weightman Sam Felton, loom as definite Olympic possibilities...
Outside of a choice vocabulary, a wartime course on the intricacies of slit-trench excavation bears little fruit for the veteran studying English at Harvard. College men bowed gracefully to military instruction and promptly forgot it. But now, as civilian students, ex-G.I.'s find that wartime studies loom huge on their credit sheets with decimal figures that pare college time to the bone. The Dean's office must step high to escape the hoard of snapping students with unwanted, but usually irrevocable service credits...