Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to McMillan, Turner said, "Now, Doctor, the policy of the administration--that is, of the president--is to forbid any member of the staff to vilify the College or any sister institution in the State. If your book is of such a character, your case will be brought before the Trustee Board for action. Remember, now, Doctor McMillan, that you have a good job here at the College...
Like her older sister Carol, Hurricane Edna proved to be a dangerous ondine, full of feminine caprices and packing a 125-mile-per-hour wallop. When first sighted last week, she was off the Bahamas, churning like a top and headed northwest. For five days she minced slowly northward in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast, while along the shore hurricane flags went up, storm shutters slammed down, and everybody waited breathlessly. HURRICANE TO HIT HEAD-ON UNLESS
...Olds for a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. At least once a year she goes off alone to her six-room Georgia house near the Okefenokee Swamp, where she calmly shoos water moccasins into the water "because they can't bite from there." Every summer Publisher Patterson visits her sister Josephine Patterson Albright* at her ranch in Dubois, Wyo., largely so that she can be with her sister's two eldest children, Alice, 13, and Joe, 17, who she hopes will run Newsday some...
...York Stock Exchange, although it can go on the American Exchange. On the other hand, if voting rights are granted to the public shares, it is probable that the Ford family would lose control of the company. Henry II, brothers Benson and William, their mother and sister own only 172,645 shares of Class B stock (at present the only voting stock). Thus it looked as if the foundation stock, when and if it goes on the market, would be nonvoting...
Alexander Mackendrick's High and Dry is very possibly the funniest Baling comedy to date, a picture as salty and Scottish as a whelk in the Firth of Forth. A sort of sister picture to his Tight Little Island, this one might be called a tragedy of plumbing...