Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other suggested changes--which may or may not be adopted by the National Rules Committee when it meets in Los Angeles next week--include returning the goal posts to the goal line to promote field goal kicking, more liberal substitution, and a rewriting of the present one-arm blocking rule...
...critics in the weeklies did not present such a solid front. Life referred to J.B. as "a great play" and "a Broadway triumph." Newsweek found it "a burst of magnificent, enthralling theatre.... a newborn classic." Hobe Morrison, writing in Variety, the entertainment trade weekly, spoke of "this exalted drama" and lauded the performers, but hedged, "Whether the show is eloquent and inspiring, or just fairly impressive and remote obviously depends on the individual...
Many writers have noted that MacLeish's hero (alias Job) gets his sobriquet from the present-day practice of calling American business executives by their initials. But no-one seems to have mentioned that he also gets it from the widespread ancient Hebrew custom of omitting vowels from the written language...
Students will be able to move into the building after July 1, when most of the present occupants will have left. Rent for the building will be "about the same" as the Irving Apartments now charges, which will be "reasonable, within the reach of graduate students," Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, said yesterday. Tenants of the building now pay between $80 and $90, one resident said yesterday...
...University hopes to build new housing facilities for married graduate students, but, Whitlock noted, "it will be several years before we can do this." The new purchase is thus "the first step in the alleviation" of the problem. At present there are about 2500 married graduate students, many of whom live in basement apartments in the slums of Somerville. Many are unable to pay average Cambridge rents, which exceed...