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...trying to win our support," said one C.I.O. official. Former ECA "subordinates" who knew him when he was ECA administrator in The Netherlands spread the word that he was vituperative, bumptious, inflexible and prejudiced. "A brilliant fellow but a little kinky," said a former associate. "He's right robust with his own opinions." Even the Wall Street Journal, which claimed him as "business-minded," noted that "Rochester students consider Valentine a 'stuffy' prexy. Newspapermen have found him irascible...
...second week in a row, there was a marked upswing in the number of seats sold in pairs, Lundeen reported, indicating that the dating habits of undergraduates are becoming increasingly robust...
Near Smile. About 1000 B.C., court artists tried to set the clock back to old King Khephren's time. The new sculptures went back only part way. "They never indeed recaptured the old robust vigor and naturalness," Drioton says. They had "a softness, almost a smile, which links them with the archaic Greek sculpture whose contemporaries they were." A seated scribe looking for all the world like a modern businessman on a holiday at the beach was one of the period's best products...
...business office). In his own four years as publisher, Ep Hoyt has shown considerably more restraint, but he has kept the Post growing in circulation (now 226,866), advertising (double in four years), prestige and influence. He has done it by making the Post responsible as well as robust...
...outdoor concert demands a program of fairly robust music, as well as precise diction. The Glee Club met both these tests. They were best in "Gaudeamus," a college medley in a very clever arrangement by William Russell; Harvard Hymn, Glorious Appollo, Bacchanal, and Marching to Pretoria were also well suited to outdoor singing. "Magdelein im Walde," a Czech folk song, was the only muggy spot on the program, and it got the loudest response from the birds. After the concert, a large part of the audience joined the Glee Club in gusty renditions of football songs...