Word: moulds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deficiencies. Most academics unfortunately adopt the first two courses open to them for their reputation depends largely on the success of their produce at the universities. There are objections to these methods. The first stultifies original thinking and turns out boys cast in a conventional college board mould: the second takes no account of the boys who are weeded out which is grossly unfair and unnecessary...
...Yale. The golden decades of the past are gone, to return no more. There is no leisure, no intellectual freedom there. All her men are struck off the same mould, and there are no seekers after light and truth. She no seekers after light and truth. She is a college whose future lies in her past...
Grace was a big woman, nearly middleaged, not pretty, a messy dresser. But her husband Tom, fussy fat clerk in an English provincial town, loved her in his own way, realized vaguely she was of finer mould than he. Grace's only child had been born dead, she could never have another. She had almost given up expecting anything to happen. She ate too many chocolates, went too often to the cinema. Then one day she met young Hugh Miller, nephew of Tom's boss. Hugh was an aristocrat who did everything well, even wandering. They met only...
Lights in a skeleton of steel glimmer above Mt. Auburn Street, where thirteen hundred men, thirty thousand tons of concrete, and fourteen hundred tons of structural steel are casting Harvard into another mould. Under the shadow of the new the past looks upward or averts its eyes. An idea, a gift, a burst of undergraduate wit, an impassive digging of foundations and overnight a Unit has changed the skyline, like the house that Jack would have built if he too had had ten million dollars...
Many cinema-seers insist that Corinne Griffith is the most beautiful woman in pictures. Fifty famed artists have painted her portrait in oils, her ankles are shapely, and her hands have been modeled by numerous sculptors. Her husband, producer Walter Morosco, uses a bronze mould of her left hand as a paper weight on his desk. Last week in Los Angeles she pleaded guilty to a charge that she had tried to evade paying-part of the tax on her 1927 income ($198,000) and was fined $1,000. She says that after she has made one more picture...