Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be a very poor move," suggested Gordon Fair, Master of Dunster House, which has its own kitchen. He claimed that "uniform menus would deprive stewards in independent kitchens of all initiative." Fair also stressed that the present system, by providing variety, gives students more choice in what they...
...technique of artificial insemination helps a farmer with poor herds to upbreed his herd only by slow stages. To speed the process, Prentice experimented with the technique of artificially inseminating a prize cow, surgically removing the fertilized egg, and implanting it in a scrub cow, which merely acts as a live incubator. The calf that is born is a prize animal with none of its mother's bad blood line. Scientists see a time when a farmer will buy a packet of fertilized ova, and in one year obtain from his scrub cows a herd of the finest cattle...
...U.C.L.A. ('27), spent his early years as a reporter on the Los Angeles Examiner, went into the tool industry in 1938, became president of Toledo's Bingham-Herbrand Corp. before moving to American Machine & Foundry. Kerr and President Alfons Landa hope to disassociate Penn-Texas from the poor publicity brought on by the fight to oust Former Chairman Leopold Silberstein by changing its name to Fairbanks Whitney Corp...
...first conceived by Playwright Maxwell Anderson and Director Rouben Mamoulian, back in 1953, as a Broadway musical drama-a sort of Guys and Dolls with a social message. The message: If Robin were alive today, he would be a labor leader, and even if he gave to the poor what he stole from the rich, he would still be damned for a Hood. What with the conservative temper of the times, and a series of union scandals, the authors could never quite raise the money fof a Broadway production-a difficulty that is not hard to understand. Even in this...
PRIX FÉMINA. Author Franchise Mallet-Joris deserved a prize, said the critics, but not for her prizewinning book, L'Em-pire Céleste, which they generally dismissed as "good, meaty, lending-library stuff." The story of a poor cafe pianist who realizes his mediocrity after friends read his diary, L'Empire seemed little more than mediocre itself. Critical consensus: had the elderly ladies of the Fémina jury been on their toes, they might have given Franchise the prize for her Illusionist (1951), the story of a young girl's love affair with...