Word: nearly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DeKiewiet cleared 6 ft., 3 3/4 in. in qualifying for the trip along with freshman Marty Beckwith. In near-perfect form, deKiewiet made every height up to the record on his first attempt...
Surely it would be possible to bring commuters into the center of Harvard life as freshmen, to get them off to a better start--as near as possible that of the rest of their classmates--as full members of the Harvard community. The commuter's sense of isolation and frustration portrayed in your article would be lessened, perhaps forced out of existence, by a constructive program to insure his participation in freshman activities...
...twelve children, Turner grew up on a ranch in Texas, struck oil as a wildcatter nearly 30 years ago, and bought his own ranch near Midland, Texas. He began buying thoroughbreds to improve his cow-pony stock, as an afterthought sent some to California to race. When World War II started, he shipped his racers back to Texas, and turned them loose on the range to breed with his cow ponies. Failing in efforts to buy established horses after the war, he decided to try his luck abroad, began buying Irish and British yearlings...
...Siqueiros was one-third finished before the guild's horrified Secretary-General Rodolfo Landa saw what Old Party Member Siqueiros was up to. By "Tragedy," it turned out, Siqueiros meant "the aggression of the government against the workers." A blazing blue-eyed soldier is slugging a striker while near by a mother weeps over the body of a youth draped in the Mexican flag. Sketched out on adjacent walls were Siqueiros' interpretations of "Comedy" ("the gangsterism of our unions") and "Farce" ("the follies of the newly rich" and "the corruption of our legislative processes...
...Long a near monopoly of French publishers, the practice of wedding word and image in sybaritic luxury is now being tried experimentally in the U.S. with startling success. In Los Angeles, Painter June Wayne, 41, took a flyer by publishing the poems of 17th century Poet John Donne, illustrated by 14 of her own lithographs. The lithographs were pulled in Paris, the text printed in Berlin. At $225 a copy, Lithographer Wayne's edition of 110 seems likely to be a sellout by year...