Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon became evident that workers from the main office would have to get out and join the signature drive or the campaign would end on July 17, the day the signatures are due. The office launched signature "blitzes" on Fall River, Lawrence, Brockton, Worcester and cities across the state. Veterans of the Hughes campaign--in which over 100,000 signatures were collected with 74,000 required--reported that one person could be counted on to get 200 signatures a day. But a day in Fall River netted only 600 signatures among ten people, and simple arithmetic showed that with three...
Dacey's book appalls lawyers-and not just because the author is a nonlawyer whose main business is selling mutual funds. The charge is that Dacey's do-it-yourself forms can hardly be relied on amid the wildly disparate laws of all 50 states. Last week the American Bar Association denounced the book, warned that using the forms without the help of a local lawyer is an invitation to disaster-to say nothing of almost inevitable probate...
...centennial year by inaugurating Samuel Kirkwood, a former Harvard medical professor and public health commissioner of Massachusetts, as its new president. Later, Harvard's President Nathan Pusey and President Emeritus James Conant will join the year-long celebration as A.U.B. moves ahead on what Kirkwood sees as its main mission: "To provide a Western education without alienating the student from his Middle Eastern environment...
...honorific and the position pays him only $6,000 yearly, Robinson spends three mornings a week at the bank, also attends monthly board meetings. His other major business activity is as general manager, executive vice president and board member of the Brooklyn Football Dodgers in the Continental League. His main chore is to persuade rookies to sign up, and he has had remarkable success among Negroes...
Morgan, you see, is a man who "acts out his fantasies," and his main fantasy is that he, Morgan, is an ape. This is a wonderful idea for a gag, and someday, perhaps, a very funny, light picture will be made out of it. David Warner, who plays Morgan in Morgan, should definitely star in that picture too, since his big-boned--affine, dammit--face and nimble movements are a perfect abstraction of apeness...