Word: odyssey
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...whose scholastic odyssey can be traced from Shanghal University to a B.A. degree at Michigan and then to Harvard last September in search of an M.A. under the Economics Department, explained this Cooperative movement in terms which were a reminder of his special field, labor problems...
Cineproducer Pare Lorentz (The River, The Plow That Broke the Plains) sued RKO for $1,619,147 damages for slander and breach of contract. RKO stopped production last July on his Name, Age and Occupation (25-year odyssey of a "composite American...
...Kippy Tuck, now 51, has spent most of his life in Europe. (His father was, for a quarter century, presiding judge of the Mixed Tribunal at Cairo.) Kippy went to school in Switzerland and Germany, returned to the U.S. to graduate from Dartmouth (1913). Then he began a long odyssey through U.S. consulates, legations and embassies, became equally at home in the salons of Paris, international cocktail parties in Geneva, the polo fields of Budapest...
...sweat" because he didn't know how the Dodgers had done for the last three games, and thus couldn't answer the main question of the U.S. troops in Egypt-knew that Buck Newsom was a natural Dodger. They were glad his fantastic Odyssey was over-Brooklyn to Jersey City to Macon to Little Rock to Chicago to Albany to Los Angeles to St. Louis to Washington to Boston to St. Louis to Detroit to Washington to Brooklyn again. They all knew him as a Man Of Purpose, though the purpose is usually weird; as the game...
...idea-a weekly seminar on eight classics-belongs to St. John's redhaired, energetic President Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr, who had already made Great Books the subject of a radio program (Invitation to Learning), an Annapolis Adult School and many civilian study clubs. His selections for Fort Meade: the Odyssey, Plato's Meno, Apology and Crito, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (Books 1, 2 and 7), Hamlet, King Lear, Gulliver's Travels...