Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aspirants to declare their intentions is April 25. Poems and odes are to be handed in to Theodore Morrison '23, director of English A, at Warren House; the addresses, to Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, on the top floor of the Germanic Museum. A skeleton manuscript of five to seven minutes' duration should be submitted...
...report holds out little hope that any U.S. city would fare much better. The large windows of U.S. office buildings might relieve the stress on the skeleton by blowing in immediately-and slicing anyone near them to ribbons. The brick or cement-block walls would turn into murderous missiles...
...kind of picture that forms at the mention of London or New York or Paris. On the opposite page are some postwar Moscow pictures. Like postcard shots anywhere, they put the best face on the city: behind the big buildings are acres of slums. The girder-skeleton (top left) is for a 26-story office building on Smolensky Square, not very imposing in Manhattan but a colossus in Europe. The splendid subway station is on the newly opened Great Circle link (TIME, Nov. 14). Most of the shiny autos, which are on their way to a soccer game...