Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence, Graber put together a montage of gems from recent themes produced by Muhlenberg freshmen: "Now of days it is quite difficult to find a student who doesn't have a devil-makes-hair attitude and take his educational opportunity for granite. The student does not do his upmost in his studies, nor does he possess the self-insurance necessary for him to face the complexing problems of college...
...assuredly lose its gloss with the lapse of time, and leave itself exposed as the threadbare popular melodrama it technically is." The critic also happened to be the play's author, George Bernard Shaw. Rashly ignoring the warning of a wise old showman, Hollywood has at tempted to put new life into the languid old yarn about shenanigans in Revolutionary War days. The British side (Sir Laurence Olivier) comes off better than the Colonials (Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster...
...minutes the birds stayed put. Then, in silent groups, they began to fly away. Along the sidewalks and on the lawns, people's mouths fell open, and murmurs rippled from group to group. In the middle of it all stood the bird man, dragging on a Roi-Tan cigar...
...Soviet citizen's curiosity about U.S. time payments-and particularly about the fate of defaulters-showed up strongly at the American National Exhibition in Moscow. While publicly deploring U.S. consumers who put themselves in debt, Soviet officials have quietly experimented with installment buying for two years. A trial in Odessa last February was hugely popular, although sloppy bookkeeping ended the venture...
...situation to reconnoiter foreign hotels, bistros and showplaces for his customers. He not only is on the look for new spas and even new nations to tout (one favorite this year: Nepal), but takes care to learn the right replies to the hushed queries that are bound to be put to him by first-time travelers: "Where are there plenty of young men around?" "I have a weak heart; how is the altitude?" "My husband snores; can we get separate rooms?" Finding a Field. Some of the most successful agencies have carved out their own special little piece...