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...Beta Kappa is going into the advising business. Freshmen still feeling their way indecisively around the field of concentration maze will be able to ask questions of Harvard's top scholars for three nights next week, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK to Give Advice to '52 On Majoring | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...spent the next day and a half in casual puttering at home. Then, on Sunday afternoon, he announced that he was going on a business trip to Buffalo; he left at 4:30, caught a ferry to Manhattan, and vanished into the stone maze of the big city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Stranger | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Concluded Tobey: "The maze of negotiations, investments, loans and leases between these trusts and Textron presents a fantastic picture of fiscal manipulation," which gave Textron an unfair advantage over taxpaying corporations. Tobey's remedy: Congress should pass a law forcing all such trusts to pay out 85% of their annual gross income to beneficiaries, to get tax exemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: A Fantastic Picture | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Second is the "work of art" school, and its, members are those who cast accusations at the literary historians. They iso'..te a work from its context and appraise its intrinsic value. Frequently these crities throw up a maze of technical jargon which only dampens the student's enthusiasm. They do, however, give him the tools with which he may articulate his opinions-the basis for genuine appreciation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teaching Literature | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

...experts regard Silver Creek as the finest dry-fly stream in the U.S. It rises from a maze of flowing springs and meanders 22 miles across a meadow south of the Sawtooth Mountains. Its rainbows grow so big (up to a record twelve pounds) because of an abundance of freshwater shrimp for them to feed on. Its channels are clear and shallow; a shadow cast across the water is enough warning for its wary rainbows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fighting Rainbows | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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