Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however, that she "had never dressed so messily in all my life before coming to Radcliffe," but aware that "my morals are the same as they were." She allowed that she had purchased her fist pair of sneakers yesterday, but was afraid that "they would look too sloppy any place but at Radcliffe...
...evening last week, a towering, bushy-haired young man strode across the stage of Chicago's Orchestra Hall, took his place on the conductor's stand. The applause was cordially perfunctory. But by the time he had led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the bouncing overture to Bedrich Smetana's Bartered Bride, Mozart's Symphony No. 38 (Prague) and Leos Janacek's bone-rattling Taras Bulba, Chicagoans were clapping hard. Thirty-five-year-old Conductor Rafael Kubelik, son of the late great Czech Violinist Jan Kubelik, they decided, was a credit to his father...
...pound to rock bottom, brushed off the cheap pounds as insignificant. But exporters estimated that $60 million a year are being lost by Britain by use of the cheap pounds to pay for British exports. Britain had hoped to plug such leaks when she devalued in the first place...
...Foremost in his makeup is vitality, drive, and aggressiveness," said Dr. Slight. "But he is expected to shut down these drives and be a man of diplomacy. The tycoon has not much place nowadays. The executive must be a compromiser. Therefore, a great deal of his innate drive cannot be expressed outwardly...
...three, multimillionaire Grain Merchant James Norris, owner of Detroit's Red Wing hockey team, and Charles Deere Wiman, president of the century-old John Deere Plow Co. and brother of Theatrical Producer Dwight Deere Wiman. Virtually unknown was spruce Henry Crown, 53, who took his place (with Norris) on the Rock Island's executive board last week, and began to help run the railroad...