Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man with the booming laugh. But they had to admit that he did seem to have a plan. The city had just become heir to a 74-room mansion, and 26-year-old John Ripley Forbes had driven all the way from Boston just to present a scheme for putting it to use. Working without pay ("until you can afford me"), Forbes raised $18,000, stocked the mansion with 160,000 specimens of everything from butterflies to a stuffed buffalo. By the end of four months, Kansas City had a flourishing natural history museum-and 1,000 visitors...
When the team planned to go to Bermuda, 35 players told Young that they were definitely interested. At that time Young planned to raise money to offset player-expense, but he gave up the entire scheme when Yale's teams, with whom the Crimson would have played exhibition games, decided to forego the venture. Yale also will send a group to Florida...
...building is a great achievement," declared Irving W. Bailey '07, professor of Plant Anatomy, "in that it took us over eight years to devise a scheme for incorporating a structure with so large a capacity into our budget...
...seems to me to be fairly self-evident that so long as American strategy, and the military forces arrayed in support of that strategy, continue to rest upon existing assumptions, this nation cannot afford to meet the annual defense bills without something important giving way in the American scheme of things...
There is no doubt that St. James' was a clever scheme. The path he plied across the straits and through the narrow streets of Karik brought him a life of double marriage and pleasure. Maud in Gibraltar (pipe, slippers, and dumplings), Nita in Karik (wine, dancing, and midnight swims). He was, as one of his crew noted, a genius. But he was also, and this, too, is duly noted, a saint. If things ended badly, it was not his fault in trying to take too much, but in wanting too little. He wanted only a single full life, and when...