Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legs. Once these details were disposed of, Copey's classroom manner was awe-inspiring. George Santayana wrote, "Copeland was an artist rather than a scholar; he was a public reader by profession, an elocutionist." A green bookbag and a glass of water always attended him. Cross-drafts, coughing and similar annoyances received no tolerance. Before speaking, he would give the audience a minute or two in which to do all the coughing or sneezing they intended to do in the next hour...
...similar view was expressed in a letter to the CRIMSON by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, who claims that the present discussion has made Memorial Church "a symbol of disunity in the Harvard community." Although he feels that "one can find legitimate and esthetic justification for the view that a Christian place of worship be just that," he "cannot avoid the feeling that matters of sectarian religious doctrine have been put ahead of concern for the Harvard community...
When Johnny died, his father wrote Death as a private memoir, but was persuaded by friends that it would inspire other parents in similar straits. Gunther has given his $25,000 in royalties from the book to children's cancer research, and Harper's has also contributed its profit. Almost ten years since the book's publication, he still gets 200 letters a year about Johnny from readers all over the world, many enclosing money, pressed flowers or a poem. Gunther and his second wife Jane, whom he married in 1948 (her first husband: Newscaster John...
...first physical impression I had of Russia, as we descended from the plane, was the quality of the metal ladder-flimsy, antique, short by half a step, and made of some queer light metal, ornately engraved. Dozens of times later, I saw similar ladders. The Russians can build a ten-billion electron-volt cyclotron, but a good simple flashlight seems beyond them. Priority goes to what counts; nobody cares if you break a leg hoisting yourself on an airplane, but to put an artificial moon in the sky is something else again...
Says Cold-Fighter Ritchie: "Even now, as a canny Scot, I'm scairt to say too much about these results. What we need is more people to do similar tests in many thousands of cases...