Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military or commercial flying. Cocky and buoyant, he settled in Ciudad Trujillo, flew in and around the Dominican Republic for ten months. And one of the flights, he boasted in indiscreet moments last summer and fall, had been a hush-hush special job. His plane, he said, had taken Scholar Galindez, disguised as a "cancer patient," from the U.S. to the Dominican Republic...
Already a pioneer in the stratosphere of quiz shows, Van Doren has only a fictitious precedent if he decides to press on. In a 1950 movie comedy, Champagne for Caesar, Ronald Colman played an omniscient scholar who almost wins a quiz-show sponsor's $40 million soap company. Says Sponsor Rosenhaus: "Everybody keeps asking if Van Doren is going to win the Geritol company. But we're safe." Geritol's contract with Barry & Enright limits its annual outlay for prizes to $520,000; anything over that comes out of the producers' pocket. So far, Van Doren...
This change should force the History concentrator to become more a historical scholar and less a course-taker. For he may have to do considerable outside reading to integrate and supplement the courses he takes. The reduction in the number of questions should enable the student to seek depth of knowledge, while the requirement of a pre-1563-question should maintain sufficient diversity...
Samuel Bernstein, the son of a Hasidic scholar, fled Russia when he was 16, to escape both the Czar's draft and the ghetto life. In New York City, in 1910, he found a job cleaning fish underneath the Brook lyn Bridge, for $1 a day. After a while he managed to get himself "in hair" ? he worked in a wigworks that made "rats" and "transformations." By the time Lennie was born, Sam had moved to Boston's Allston section and was building a prosperous business of his own as a beauty-parlor supplier...
...Britain's new Prime Minister has the elegance of an aristocrat, the literacy of a scholar, the drive of an executive. His oratorical gestures are as widely expansive as his mustache, his eyes are hound-dog sad, but his wit is quick and cheerfully malicious...