Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graduate students in his field knew him. Sitting in cafeterias that bordered the campus or standing in one of the book-stores, they saw him go by, carrying the bag tightly under his right arm.... They knew he was a widower, and that he did his own cooking and his own housework. Occasionally one of the students rang his doorbell late in the afternoon and asked if Professor Greg was free to help him with a research problem on which he was working. Invariably he was invited in and given tea and macaroons, and from some invisible card file...
...would walk up to the old three-story brick house and pay Professor Greg a visit.... Greg rarely said anything about what he was working on, or even whether he was working toward any specific goal; but Hall and Ford often ran into him in the library, saw him picking up his books and putting them into his green book bag, and students ringing his doorbell frequently had to wait until he came down the three long flights from his study...
...similarity to Christian sacrament won't carry you to the core of Oedipus, either, for Sophocles' drama is above all else a pagan rite of purification. It is a religious outlook worthy of general reconsideration, and the present film will show you not only what the Athenians saw on stage twenty-five centuries ago but what they saw in the world and the cosmos as well. The masks of the actors bear a bizarre and wholly appropriate resemblance to the grotesque faces of the magnified reptiles and insects seen in the Brattle's introductory short subject. Tanya Moiseiwitsch has provided...
Suds Rosa. In Port Arthur, Ont, where it is illegal to drink beer in a licensed beverage room unless seated, the provincial liquor licensing board clapped a four-week suspension on the Vendome Hotel when inspectors saw waiters serving beer to customers who had fallen off their chairs...
When the common market idea first came up, the British saw a surer future in their own Commonwealth and held aloof from any such untried continental combine. But to safeguard their European trade stake, they cooked up a plan for a wider, 17-nation Western European "free trade area" which would include the inner six and would also start in business on Jan. 1. Last week, at a showdown meeting of representatives of the 17 free trade area nations in Paris, the French threw up such a solid wall of resistance that the British feared for their chances of keeping...