Word: loree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such interesting people. "It's the best job you can have if your tastes run that way, and mine do," he explains. A lean and balding six-footer who wears glasses so he can see across the class room, Perkins has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of Harvard history and lore. But he will get up during even a casual conversation for a book to verify a name or a class, a habit which he charges, off to a historian's insistence on exactitude. Perkins' field is Eighteenth Century England and in the fall he teaches History 142a, besides being...
...every old grad's log of college lore is a group of stories about the shops along Massachusetts Avenue and its one-way tributaries. A random few recall the laundry establishments; others various coffee shops, but in the Harvard reminiscences of many contemporary writers and poets, the Grolier book-store on Plympton Street crops up an unusual number of times...
...most remarkable thing about this remarkable progress in everything from toasters to atomic energy is that it is bossed by a man who is neither physicist, engineer nor production expert. Price is still so innocent of mechanical lore that friends kid him about the time his car stalled in Pittsburgh's rush-hour traffic. Mrs. Price had to lift the hood and get it started, because Price didn't know how to work the jammed automatic choke. But what unscientific President Price demonstrates is that management is a science of its own, and that, in a mass-production...
...when he was sent to Pont Beudet to take charge of an insane asylum, he was already deep in voodoo lore...
Rumbling Majorities. Sometimes Oberjohann was able to keep close to a herd for several minutes at a stretch without being detected; piece by piece he added to his elephant lore...