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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sovereign at a meal within its vaulted halls on Threadneedle Street. Said Queen Elizabeth II, after she and the Duke of Edinburgh had lunched with the bank's governor: "I remember coming here as a child with my grandmother and being fascinated, as all children are, by the sight of so much gold...
...show what the doublet glasses can do, Dr. Feinbloom told of a twelve-year-old Ohio girl who was born with part of the retina missing. Her sight was so poor that she could not go to regular schools and was learning Braille. With doublet glasses she breezed through elementary school. She got through high school with honors and now, at 17, is in college taking journalism and working part time as a reporter...
This particular Santa goes under the alias of Joe Bradley about ten months of the year. In the mufti season, however, he still dispenses cheer as a wandering bartender. "It's like being a Santa too long in the same place," he said. "People get so they hate the sight of you. You know what they say about familiarity breeding contempt? Well, after a while they get contempt for me and I get contempt for them, so I keep moving...
Since the sight of a large flock of home-town boys headed for Harvard naturally flatters both prides, among other reasons, the admissions office has formed the Schools Committees to spread the Harvard gospel to the best young prospects in two. The system functions quite well in cities where the Clubs keep a keen eye on young prospects. In these places, the undergraduate Schools Committeeman spends vacation days visiting a group of good prospects already chosen by the Club committee, in order to give them a student' eye view of the College, Besides, the undergraduate files a report on each...
...best architects are planners, if says, positing to men like Rolferd Gropius wants to educate to whole distress and feels the school has lost sight of this...