Word: main
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...simple life. He still lives in his old bachelor apartment ($50 a month) on Manhattan's West Side, drinks milk instead of martinis, dodges nightclubs, wears baggy tweeds. A trifle nearsighted, he reads voraciously (Wolfe, Camus, Fitzgerald), memorized the long, difficult part of Gene in one day. His main relaxation: late night TV and movies...
...ride out the storm last week. Capital President David H. Baker and Chairman J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael flew to London, hoping to stretch out payments on their Viscount fleet. In addition. Capital is economizing everywhere, may trim its 8,000-man payroll by 10%. Yet its main hope rests with CAB. Barring subsidy, it wants a healthy fare increase. Without it, Capital may eventually be forced to shut down or merge, possibly with Northwest Airlines...
...annual Harvard-Radcliffe Conference on Careers in Education will open today. Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Faculty of Education, Frank B. Freidel Jr., professor of History, and Judson T. Shaplin '42, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education, will deliver the main speeches...
...soloists, Grace Hunter, Wesley Copplestone, and Thomas Beveridge '58, were uniformly excellent in quality of style and technique and in intonation. The main problem they faced was that Miss Hunter's tone was noticeably larger and stronger than either of the others'. Singing from in back of the orchestra, the men's voices sounded somewhat thin. Curiously enough, this was more apparent in the solo arias than in the ensembles, where the balance was much better. Miss Hunter performed with spirit and facility, and her singing with the chorus was particularly effective. Mr. Beveridge, the only non-professional soloist...
Physical facilities of some of these schools--Agassiz and Peabody, for example--are more than adequate. The main complaints of these graduate students concern the calibre of teaching. "What can you expect when appointments are made arbitrarily instead of by merit?" one father in GSAS demanded...