Word: minerva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandpa's seven granddaughters (Athena, Minerva. Niobe, Aphrodite, Calliope, Medea and Ceres) run a yoghurt, blackstrap and spinach-juice store, and after hours they take their eurythmics in the grove. Grandpa is delighted to meet Adam ("I liked the look of your sartorius muscle as soon as I saw you"), and invites him to a meal of peanutburgers. That night Athena sends Adam home with tokens of her love: a bag of raw vegetables and a bar bell...
...Webb, whom you quaintly describe in your recent article as "basically modest," gives the impression that the original radio Dragnet sprang full-blown, like Minerva, from his forehead. Just for the record: the radio audition which sold the original series was produced by William P. Rousseau and directed by Carl Gruener ... I wrote the script . . . You quote Webb as asking of those who ... are no longer with him: "You just show me their track records." He will be happy to learn that at present I am working toward a Ph.D. at Columbia. I consider it to be something...
...Institute and Washington's National Gallery, where some 170 Dale paintings now fill nine rooms, hang in twelve others. Always a believer in noblesse oblige, Patroness Dale once discarded her town car because its roof left the chauffeur exposed, designed a $20,000 Belgian-made Minerva cabriolet with a sliding metal top that could be pulled over the driver's seat at the first sign of rain...
Sorcerer & Apprentice. There is no precedent for failure in Charles Erwin Wilson's career. Born in Minerva, Ohio, where his father, Thomas Wilson, was principal of the local public school, Erwin Wilson (as his friends called him) had a traditional boyhood: the swimming hole, a pony, stolen rides on railroad handcars, improvised shows in a neighbor's barn (with Erwin Wilson as the magician). The Wilson family moved to Pittsburgh in 1904. At Pittsburgh's Bellevue High and later at Carnegie Tech, Erwin was a fair to middling athlete (basketball and football), and a bright and dogged...
This does not mean that General Education and the Bender Plan emerged Minerva-like from the Decanal forehead, unaided by members of the committees involved and the Faculty. Rather, it was a matter of the Provost's ability to bring up ideas, to appoint good men to committees and to secure the best from them and to allow fully play for the wisdom of the Faculty as a whole without relinquishing the essence of either program. This combination of initiative, tolerance, and determination has steadily characterized his thirteen years in office...