Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antics and Miss Verdon's talent for moving about, but this isn't enough to provide the film with the success the musical enjoyed. Even embittered Milwaukee fans won't pay for the sadistic pleasure of seeing the Yankees lose--though some might bargain for their souls if an offer were made...
...foster projects which are intellectual ends in themselves. It is a fond hope that the English concentrator may become interested in the art of printing and study illuminated manuscripts, or that the Chemistry major steep himself in Civil War lore. Such "non-functional" ventures, springing from personal curiosity, offer the gratification of solitary scholarship, the satisfaction of a discipline stemming from self and subject alone...
Harvard's Athletic Association was one of the first to recognize lightweight crew as a major sport. The numerical division between light and heavyweight oarsmen is now roughly equal. Yet the University continues to offer a 150's coach only the salary of a three-fifths teaching fellow and expects him to handle both freshman and varsity boats, while it employs two permanent, full-time men to coach the heavies...
...Classic Simplicity." Ford teed off by blasting its competitors' "bombastic" styling, showed the press a line of short-finned, chrome-light Fords that offer "classic simplicity" and economy.* There will be greater difference in styling and price among the '593 than in many a year. Ford Division Boss James 0. Wright said the new Fords "series by series will be cheaper than Chevrolet or Plymouth," even though "prices will be up somewhat." Since Chevrolet has dropped its lowest-priced Delray line and Plymouth has scrapped its rock-bottom Plaza, the lowest-priced Ford Custom 300 is expected...
...would be inadequate, at best, if it had to hire men who wanted only to teach freshman English to engineering students. On the other hand, a 600-man liberal arts college (that is the number of students in Lehigh's Arts and Sciences College) would find it difficult to offer the salary and facilities which Lehigh, as a larger institution, can give to English instructors who are willing to spend a small amount of their time teaching the engineers...