Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sculptor Jo Davidson, who has modeled heads of Franklin Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein and Frank Sinatra, wound up a commission in Belgrade, put the finishing touches on a bust of Marshal Tito...
...incautious, if not downright foolhardy, in scheduling a game with the University of Michigan's rebuilt postwar juggernaut, pride of the Western Conference and No. 1 ranking team of the land. But since somebody had to be Michigan's 26th consecutive victim, and Army was sure to put up a stout fight, some 97,000 went out to the university stadium to see the massacre...
...thin, 155-lb. safety-man, Cadet Tom Brown, played taps for Michigan by intercepting a pass in the end zone in the last six minutes of play. Final score: Army 21, Michigan 7. When Army's team came home to the grey-walled Point, the Cadet corps put on a welcome so thunderous that it almost drowned out an eleven-gun howitzer salute...
...Numbers. The trouble is, says the FORUM, that New York makes no provision for changes in population. Most of its schools are planned by the Board of Education's Construction Bureau, which sticks by its oldtime architects and methods. As one former bureau architect put it: "When a program for a new school came through, we used to riffle through the drawers, find something that looked suitable, and accomplish the tremendous design job of changing the numbers on the old plan...
...help Sarnoff translate his theory into practice, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis put up research funds. Then, in the School's machine shop, Sarnoff,* with the help of Dr. Leslie Silverman, began assembling transformers and rheostats. Soon they had a machine which could deliver regular pulses of an electric current. It was too small to produce a shock. But, applied to the phrenic nerves of monkeys, cats and dogs, the current made the breathing muscles work rhythmically...