Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, and Adams House received a $50 prize for showing the greatest promise among undergraduates who concentrate in History and Literature. Another History and Literature prize of $50 was won by Carl Rudolph Triebs '51 of Milwaukee and Little Hall for making the most notable progress during the past year among Sophomore concentrators in the department...
Provost Furniss and Dean of the College William C. DeVane, both members of the Prudential Committee, have at various times described the informant as "trustworthy", "a person who felt it was his duty to Yale", and a "man trusted by Yale in the past...
...came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co. to observe last week that the new bearish peak merely means that "Johnny Come Lately is on the bear side [and] it has not paid big dividends to follow him in the past...
Gump's sharp break with its incensescented past was decreed by Richard Benjamin Gump, 43, an artist-entrepreneur who took over as president in March 1947. This year he has boosted business 10% over 1948 (when the net profit was $160,000 on a gross of $2,600,000). To Dick Gump the change was part of a crusade against "that awful, stuffed-shirt attitude about art which scares the people and keeps the merchandise on your shelves...
...teaching after his graduation from Harvard; Biographer Rusk gives the subjects he assigned to his girl students for English composition, his comments on their papers. Other biographers have touched lightly on the tragedies in Emerson's family; Rusk tells in detail of his brother Bulkeley, who lived past middle age without developing mentally; of his brother Edward, whose mind gave way briefly at the moment of his greatest promise, and who was taken to the asylum by Emerson himself; of another brother, Charles, supposedly the most gifted of the family, who died on the eve of his marriage...