Word: low
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keppel said the School is "currently seeking funds" for the project, particularly from foundations and corporations. Because of the Program for Harvard College and the low income of its alumni, Keppel said the School's soliciting power is limited...
...parliamentary advantage, Macmillan will be able to develop the policies which have brought England unprecedented prosperity domestically and a new leadership in the cold war abroad. If the Tories can avoid the temptations which such a strong majority offers, and not overlook such domestic considerations as localized unemployment and low pensions, they could bring five years of progressive domestic government. Similarly, if they are sufficiently flexible to reconsider the problems of British Africa and of the challenge of a united continental Europe, Macmillan's government could give England a renewed position in the world...
...Although it measures 40 by 40½ in., the tempera panel was painted with a miniaturist's exactitude. The firewood outside the window carries a symbolic suggestion of the yule log, which European rustics burn as a magical sacrifice to start the failing sun northward. The low winter sun gleams on the logs, and sidles through the glass into the bare kitchen...
...each country to boost native artists. U.S. critics have long declined to do the same, but now they are changing. Sign of the trend: George Braziller Inc. last week published six monographs on U.S. artists, to sell at $3.95 in hard cover and $1.50 in Pocket Book. The low prices were achieved by gambling on large sales and by ordering big first printings-10,000 hard cover, 50,000 paperbacks. The editions are identical inside, carry more than 80 plates each, with 16 in color (drawn partly from the files of TIME). Texts range from excellent on down...
...more than half a century. The area around the little north Italian town of Ombrosa is so heavily forested that he can travel for miles swinging from tree to tree like an 18th century Tarzan. He builds tree houses and shoots game. He climbs down to a low branch to milk a complacent goat, trains a hen to lay in a convenient place. A limb overhanging a swift-running stream makes an excellent toilet...