Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Problem Solved. As other visitors began to arrive-officials from Shanghai, old friends-Chiang retired to a small guest room. He saw them one by one, if only for a moment, bidding each farewell. After an hour he excused himself and changed into the long blue gown and black jacket traditional of the Chinese gentleman. Outside, it was a clear and unusually warm winter day. As the Gimo stepped into his big, black Cadillac bearing No. 1 on its license plates, the sun was low in the west...
...Jones saw some action last season before he brake his arm, and won by decision in the Wesleyan meet this year. Conners wrestled as a freshman last winter; Thompson, who decisioned his opponent in the MI'T match when he filled in at 175, would have to lose ten pounds to take the 165-pound assignment...
...three years of coaching experience, Margarita has been on the raw end of Harvard-Yale contest three times. He worked under Dick Harlow in the gloomy 1946 and 1947 seasons and saw his Crimson charges bow t the Elis both years. Last fall he joined the Herman Hickman regime in New Haven, and when a Valpey-inspired Crimson eleven turned the tables, Margarita was still on the bottom...
Many a modern student of art who wandered into Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week smiled patronizingly at what he saw. On the walls were more than a hundred paintings and drawings by an almost forgotten U.S. landscapist named Thomas Cole. His worst pictures were vast neo-classical allegories done after he had become famous and made the Grand Tour of Europe. His best were meticulous and tender souvenirs of walking trips through the Catskills, the White Mountains and the old Northwest Territory, sometimes embellished with a log cabin, a lone hunter, or a circle of Indian braves. Under...
From the time he saw his first light bulb, he wanted to be an electrical engineer. He sped through a four-year course at Carnegie Tech in three years, and at 18 went to work for Westinghouse Electric Corp., at 18? an hour. By the time he was 22, he had married (on $80 a month) and had designed Westinghouse's first motor for auto starters...