Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard would not be setting any precedents--but only following the lead of its well-respected sister university in the Midwest. Surely the University could spare enough capital to set up the Sam Snead Professorship in Applied Golfing Tactics and the Goren Chair of Whist Certainly these are more useful subjects than coin-collecting (Harvard once had an Honorary Curator of Numismatic Literature...
...school fares from 5? to 8?, and transfers, which had been free, were priced at 5?. The strike spirit showed no signs of flagging. A Negro minister, working for the car pool, stopped to pick up an old woman who had obviously walked a long way. "Sister," said he, "aren't you getting tired?" Her reply: "My soul has been tired for a long time. Now my feet are tired, and my soul is resting...
...generally approve of these oddballs she goes out with," John Bernard ("Kell") Kelly Jr., the national sculling champion, said last year (TIME, Jan. 31, 1955). He was referring to the foreign-born escorts his beautiful sister, Cinemactress Grace Kelly, seemed to prefer. "I wish," he added wistfully, "that she would go out with the more athletic type...
...those days sister Grace was showing a distinct preference for such indoor sports as Dress Designer Oleg Cassini and Actor Jean-Pierre Aumont. Last fortnight another young foreigner came to call on Grace at the Kelly mansion in Philadelphia. "I was under the impression he was going to stay just a couple of hours," said Grace's father, Millionaire John B. ("Jack") Kelly. "But he stayed and stayed and stayed." In the end the visitor formally asked Jack for his daughter's hand in marriage. Thus, three weeks after his arrival in the U.S., Prince Rainier...
...great prima donnas were parked. Plans were made to remodel a small apartment building into a tiny theater. Eventually, after five years of labor and some half a million dollars, La Piccola Scala (cap. 600) was finished, its stage nestled cosily against the stage wall of its big sister, its interior decorated in old gold, but with smooth, simple lines, without a trace of baroque...