Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenneth Lynn '45, assistant professor of English, commented, "Official anniversaries tend to resurrect official reputations, which is particularly too bad in the case of Longfellow. If only we could forget "Paul Revere's Ride" we might be able to remember that Longfellow was both a humorist and a master of versification...
When a touring U.S. rodeo troupe moseyed unwhooping into Manila's own White House, Malacanan Palace, pretty Teresita Magsaysay, 22, eldest daughter of the Philippines' President Ramon Magsaysay, borrowed a ten-gallon topper, looked set to ride, tall in the saddle, into the Golden West...
After sliding gently downhill for months, Wall Street's stock market went out for a short, whistling toboggan ride last week. It shot down to 454.82 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, almost 70 points below the bull-market peak set last April...
...hand v. 870,000 last year at this time. Demand was strong enough by last week for producers to roll out a 1957 record of more than 148,000 new cars, up about 16% from the same week last year. Ward's Reports said Detroit production will ride at a near record for the first quarter largely because sales-happy Ford and Chrysler will push output 30% ahead of last year. On the other hand, motormakers are paring their stockpiles of steel, aluminum, glass, rubber and paint to normal minimums. Their steel-buying has fallen below their production ever...
Pity Limit. Near Zwingle, Iowa, after his truck started to burn, Norman Fulmer hitched a ride to the firehouse and asked for help, was told that firemen could not work beyond the town's boundaries, hitched back to the truck, got back in, drove the fire to fire headquarters for treatment...