Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Brown feels that the weather, rather than lack of men or equipment, is the prime factor operating against his crew. He pointed out that Harvard is the northernmost large rowing college, except for Dartmouth...
...actress were confined to delivering an occasional shy smile. And Mel Ferrer once more exhibited his really astonishing capacity for looking bored. The one man who might have rescued the show from tedium, Raymond Massey, was not allowed to do anything but sneer in his role as Prime Minister. To be sure, they all appeared quite handsome in their fine uniforms, which were broadcast in color, but it is still very tempting to suggest that they return to their Cinemascope studios and try again. The only trouble is that they just possibly might...
...journalism, today is being outglittered by a new performer: the inquiring headline writer. On the theory that no question is too complex for a headline-and no answer too lame for the text-the quiz kid rose swiftly from keyhole-peeping sheets such as Confidential (WHAT WAS PRIME MINISTER NEHRU...
...high cost of doing business, as wages and prices both reached record peaks (see above), was cutting sharply into profits. Last week's outpouring of year-end reports gave some prime examples of the squeeze...
...first diversion from independent study is--and we bring this up with some hesitation--the increasing professionalism of extra-curricular activities. Drama is probably the prime example--with nine productions in two weeks last spring--but publications, radio, and music probably fit the pattern equally well. As the end product of students who came up the ranks learning-by-doing, this is natural and not necessarily a Bad Thing; but as a barrier to independent study, it must be taken into account in planning the curriculum, for it concerns over half the undergraduates...