Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper has gone downhill since then, she noted, "until it no longer has enough prestige to attract talented writers. Editor Jane A. Conner '60 was forced to put out the last three issues without assistance, Miss Webster continued, and "all she received was criticism...
Three years ago Chalk bought Washington's well-hated, strike-bound transit system from Louis Wolfson, who had milked it of millions. Chalk put up only $500,000 of his own money, borrowed $9,100,000, plus a $3,900,000 mortgage, to take over a company with a book value of $27 million. He started out by painting Washington's buses glaring green and coral, installed shapely stewardesses on streetcars, last summer rolled out 100 new buses (67 of them air-conditioned) in a downtown parade with four bands, bathing beauties, clowns, calypso dancers. Hoopla-and hustling...
...plays and volumes of short stories have made Maugham one of the most widely read writers in the world-and one of the richest. He makes no bones about money and the pleasures it buys: a villa on the Riviera, good cigars, expensive paintings, luxurious travel. As he once put it: "I had no intention of living on a crust in a garret if I could help it. I had found out that money was like a sixth sense without which you could not make the most of the other five." Maugham's senses are well satisfied...
...Prayer of Rescue. Yet Shackleton would not be dissuaded, and Alfred Lansing has crisply re-created one of the most audacious assaults that Antarctica ever defeated. Shackleton sailed from Buenos Aires in October 1914, with 69 dogs, no radio transmitter, and a motley crew of 27 volunteers. He put his faith in Endurance, a barkentine (144 ft. long, 25 ft. wide) with a reinforced hull and 350-h.p. auxiliary steam engine. Three months later Endurance was in the Weddell Sea, a vast, bowl-shaped scoop in the Atlantic coast of Antarctica, and there the ice packs began kneading...
...winning the discus with a 158 ft., 3 3/4 in. toss, and shot putter Hank Abbot broke another record with his 50 ft., 3 in. heave. Stan Doten came through with an excellent 151 ft., 9 1/4 in. throw to take second in the discus, and Steve Cohen put the shot 48 ft., 6 in., his best ever, to beat out Princeton's Bill Fisher for second place...