Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PORTLAND, Jan. 31-Irving Murray Pinansky '35, who graduated from the Law School last June as the highest ranking member of his class, died today in the Maine General Hospital. He had been sick for several months...
This story reverses that of the convict-the doctor, too, is trying to erect barriers against nature-and the sick, squalid, miserable sequence of events he goes through contrasts with the nightmarish but still exhilarating adventures of the convict. It does not come off: the doctor and his mistress are not credible characters, the prose is turgid and confusing. But not even careless writing can weaken the cumulative effect of Faulkner's imaginative fertility, the boldness and originality of his themes...
Supporting these stellar performers will be Captain Em Walker, who won the 150 back against Dartmouth when Wilcox was sick, George Gibbons, sophomore distance man with much promise, Bill McCullough, veteran breastroker, Holmes Wilson, diver, and Art doherty, distance man. From these men the Cantabs will get the most competition...
Julius ("The Just") Heil personifies the U. S. businessman who is sick of political theorists. Born in Germany, brought to the U. S. at three, orphaned at 12, Julius Heil has been working ever since. He manicured horses and waited on customers for a Wisconsin country storekeeper. He learned about machinery by running a drill press at 14 for International Harvester Co., about trolley cars by being a conductor in Milwaukee. He founded his own business, a rail joint welding company, in 1900 with the first $700 he saved. For ten years he paid himself only...
Freed by his fellowship, leathery Edward Weston has covered 25,000 miles of California and New Mexico on sorties lasting two and three weeks from bases in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sick of human faces, he found his subjects in the surfaces of mountains and deserts. As Walker Evans' work fixes moments of a changing society, Weston's mirrors static Nature: the bleached bowl of Death Valley, with two black wheel tracks winding into it; elephant-textured granite in the Mojave Desert...