Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class barriers between the 70 "scholars" (admitted to Winchester by virtue of high scholastic ability), the 16 "quiristers," who for centuries have received a free education for singing in the choir (until their voices change), and the 400-odd "commoners," whose families pay the full fee to make the lads both scholars and gentlemen...
...same desire makes it all the harder for ancient public schools like Winchester to change course, even when necessity seems to make changes inevitable...
...Harvard Law School and revered in the field of jurisprudence, to serve as "visiting professor" at U.C.L.A. (Because he is 78 and far past U.C.L.A.'s retirement age, Pound signed up only on a year-to-year basis.) With Pound's assistance, U.C.L.A. expects to make its law library "one of the finest and most complete on the coast -if not the nation...
...museum going after her death in 1942. The Whitney never offered prizes, instead spent from $10,000 to $30,000 a year buying the pictures it liked. Up until her last illness, Juliana Force moved poker-backed and sharp-eyed among American artists, watching for someone who might make another Whitney "first...
...over Italy, schemes were being made to cash in on the first Holy Year since 1933 (TIME, June 6). As far away as Taranto, a businessman planned to make a killing with beer bottles made in the shape of St. Peter's basilica. (Rome's patent office frowned on the idea.) Police clamped down on a photographer's ingenious gadget: a strip of photographs of the Pope making the sign of the cross; when slipped through the hand, the device would give its owner the sensation of personally receiving the Pope's blessing...