Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bites of U.N. thinking are washed down with draughts of unabashed theater. Only at the end do plot and theme rather floridly meet-when the Russian delegate, despite his Communist conditioning, shows a human spark. That human spark, deep inside even Communists, is what Delegate Cornell feels can eventually save the world...
...sincerest admirers was a phrenology enthusiast named Carl Rosenbaum. Two nights after Haydn's funeral in 1809, Rosenbaum took a shovel, a lantern and a brace of helpers to the fresh grave. When he left, he carried Haydn's head under his arm. His purpose: to save the great man's cranium for the study and admiration of future phrenologists...
Reproduction. At their meetings last week, the salmon packers planned to save their industry by a $1,000,000 advertising campaign in cooperation with other interested industries (i.e., U.S. Steel) and a widespread conservation program to bring back the salmon. The new rules call for 50% fewer nets and traps in 1954 in order to let more salmon escape to the breeding areas, more and better scientific research to help the salmon breed successfully, a Government-aided program such as the one that helped to build up the salmon runs in Canada's Fraser River (TIME, Sept...
...small-town minister, McClellan worked his way through Occidental College as a cantaloupe inspector and packer, cook and college janitor, was made head janitor when he devised a way to save the college 10% on cleaning expenses. After graduation he went to work for a creamery, and a year later was made sales manager. In 1927, McClellan decided to go into business for himself; for $10,000 he bought a rundown Los Angeles paint company. His company, which now employs 150, has increased sales in all but two of the years since, this year will gross about...
...Scots Poetry, borders on the burlesque." When his excise pay "was cut, Burns went to bed with a fever, and on July 12, 1796, begged ?10 of a cousin: "A rascal of a Haberdasher to whom I owe a considerable bill . . . has commenced a process against me . . . O, James! . . . Save me from the horrors of a jail!" Within a fortnight, and before the ten-pound check or the haberdasher, death came, at 37, to Robert Burns...