Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hadn't really expected to see the game. He was sure he wouldn't be able to get tickets, and thought he would certainly be too busy to go anyway. But he saw it after all. Last week, when Stanford University played its Big Game with the University of California (see SPORT), John Ewart Wallace Sterling found himself in one of the best seats in the Berkeley stadium. He had just been appointed Stanford's new president...
According to the guidebooks, there should have been a great university, standing in the middle of the town. But when British troops moved into Caen that July day in 1944, they saw no university. The night before, an Allied bomb had struck the library, and fire had destroyed the buildings. The pride of Normandy, the 500-year-old University of Caen, had vanished...
...Dartmouth seniors saw an opportunity. They had seen girl after distressed girl come up for a Dartmouth weekend with the wrong clothes, the wrong expectations, the wrong attitude. William B. Jones and Richard H. O'Riley thought they could improve that situation, if anybody could. They had already written a men's guide to women's colleges, For Men Lonely (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947). Last week they published a sequel: Weekend, A Girl's Guide to' the College Weekend (Houghton Mifflin...
...face, and the walrus mustache, were familiar to San Franciscans, but they were not used to seeing him sitting down, with a viola tucked under his chin. Last week San Francisco concertgoers saw their symphony's conductor, famed old Pierre Monteux, sitting in with a string quartet...
...Brookings Institution's President Harold G. Moulton took a look at prospects for 1949 and liked what he saw: "A well-sustained level of national production and employment; a moderate decline in the cost of living; continued but abortive efforts at credit control; an expansion of Government expenditures for social and defense programs; [and] higher wages." Farm prospects would be dimmed by "a further decline in agricultural prices," and corporations would face increased taxes. But an increase in crops might prevent any real drop in farm incomes, said Moulton, and lower farm prices would "afford real relief for those...