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Word: make (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schlesinger revealed that the committee has reached "a final decision" and will make a formal recommendation to the Radcliffe trustees on June 9. But he refused to make any statement about the identity of the nominee, beyond the assurance that "it's neither Eleanor Roosevelt nor Clare Booth Luce...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Dean of Students at Rutgers May Become Next Radcliffe President | 5/27/1959 | See Source »

...thing, the fielding has been average at best; and on occasion it has been horrendous. And more important still, this has not been a smart team. Alertness, resourcefulness, the ability to make the best of opportunities: those are important characteristics of all truly good baseball squads. And it is just here that Harvard has been conspicuously lacking--however great its raw physical talent in other areas...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Inconsistent Crimson Baseball Team Stands 13-9 With Five Games To Go | 5/27/1959 | See Source »

...shrewd leftist Italian conspirators-political stage managers who are using him to inspire and excite the crowd. To the conspirators, Angelo is a mere straw man whose ultimate "destiny is to be burned. "All that is asked of him," says a plump rebel plotter named Bon-dino, "is to make a lot of smoke . . . under cover of which we can get to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The World's a Stage | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...sphere and that the motion of heavenly bodies must be in perfect circles at uniform speed. Aristotle returned to the idea of an immobile earth and placed it in the center of nine concentric, transparent spheres, outside which was the Unmoved Mover who kept the whole machinery turning. To make the heavens jibe with Aristotle, the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy, in the 2nd century A.D., posited a universe of wheels within wheels called epicycles. Of this system, the best comment is perhaps that of Alphonso X of Castile, who said: "If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Music of the Spheres | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...itself or in the way it is photographed. The playwright's declared purpose is to show corruption, and his story does so while remaining well within the bounds of what is acceptable on the modern screen or stage. The real trouble with the film lies in Williams' failure to make his people anything more than corrupt. They have more medical than dramatic interest--or at least they did until Elia Kazan got to work on them...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabcher, | Title: Baby Doll | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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