Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yellow skirt talked to a schoolboy, his books in one hand, a gallon jug with two lively brown mice in the other. "If you want to be chicken," said the girl, "go on in." The boy smiled shamefacedly -and went to school. The Central High School class bell rang at 8:45-and at almost that instant a shriek went up: "Here come the niggers...
Tintinnabulations resounded throughout the University yesterday. The Russian chimes of President Lowell rang in the evening, announcing the first High Table, and in the less traditional Boylston Hall a fire bell rang for fifteen minutes, causing worried students to stand hesitatingly before its door...
Department stores happily met a late-summer buying rush. Sales in August's last week jumped 5% above the preceding year. For the whole month, New York City area stores rang up 7% more sales than in last year's record August. And in the Labor Day week, stores were crowded with shoppers, notably at Macy's in Manhattan. Said Macy's Chairman Jack I. Straus: "In view of the continuing high levels of employment and consumer income throughout the nation, we anticipate fall sales to be about 6% ahead of last year...
...cozy coteries of readers. In his eleventh novel, he seems to be aiming at a larger audience, possibly including those who read Playboy and Confidential. He may succeed, for he is an extraordinarily versatile writer. In The Works of Love, he sounded like Sherwood Anderson; The Huge Season rang with persistent echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald; this time he handles sex and violence in the manner of a more or less literate Mickey Spillane...
Sanders Theatre rang with the sounds of fine singing yesterday evening. The occasion was the annual concert of the Summer School Chorus. For the third successive year the Chorus was trained by Harold C. Schmidt '32, professor of Music and choral director at Stanford University; and for the third successive year the results were remarkable...