Word: pored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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California's Democratic Governor Pat Brown is a most amiable fellow. But he can weep from every pore when things begin to go wrong-and so far in his state's 1963 legislative year, very little has gone right...
...Harvard map collection, one of the largest in the country, numbers some 250,000 pieces, but don't expect to find the one you're looking for. Not that the sweet ladies who run the Winsor Map Room don't do their best for you. They pore over the old handwritten catalogue books and sort through the forests of wall maps, drawers crammed with charts, and stacks of old and valuable atlases. But to little avail. Everything, it seems, is out of place; nothing has been scientifically catalogued...
Georges Wildenstein, known to his 25-man staff as "M. Georges/' does much of his own sleuthing. Nothing delights him more than to work in his office after closing hours and pore over what has become one of the largest collections of auction catalogues in the world. Occasionally, Wildenstein's may have an item, say, a quick sketch by Mary Cassatt, for as little as $100; from there the prices soar up to six figures. As an exhibition hall, the gallery has led a double life. On its fifth floor it has put on an average of five...
...indecent to snatch up the Radcliffe Freshman Register and pore over the photographs. Be neither excited nor numbed, neither aroused nor repulsed, neither elevated nor depressed. The sophisticated one (male) in search of the sophisticatee (feminine ending) is the model of calculation. His campaign has two parts: discerning the prospects, and electing the winner...
...chest out of which the Philippines' potent handful of big sugar planters underwrite the politicians of their choice. Personable Brother Fernando, the team's working politician, served as Vice President in the sleazy administration of President Elpidio Quirino (1948-53), and is currently president protem-pore of the Philippine Senate...