Word: spartan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DeMille announced his next subject-a story by another, older epic-maker. Said he: "I have always been fascinated by the story of Helen of Troy. It offers the first dramatic example of conflict between Asia and Europe. And the love story of Paris of Troy and the beautiful Spartan girl Helen is something I've long wanted to bring to the screen. Homer did all right with his story. I'd like...
...situation the rink's supporters could not expect the University to back the drive. Such a campaign would draw funds away from the University's other, more important, projects. Without University endorsement, however, the elaborate, costly rink first proposed by the committee is impractical. A campaign for a more Spartan rink might succeed through the contributions of hockey enthusiasts alone...
...Spartan Soldier. In Ridgway NATO got a rugged, spartan soldier who has proved himself a fine field commander. Propelled overnight into command of the U.S. Eighth Army during Korea's darker days, he converted the retreating Eighth into what has been called the finest army ever fielded by the U.S. Truman's firing of Douglas MacArthur thrust Ridgway up suddenly as supreme commander in Japan. In the waning final year of the occupation, he has proved capable of tact and diplomacy (although given to bursts of temper), and has dutifully left most of the big decision making...
...After a poll of undergraduates, the San Jose (Calif.) State College Spartan Daily reported that more than half the students admitted that they had cheated, nearly half said they would do it again...
Inside their walled institution, both students and faculty live a Spartan existence. Such hardship, college authorities feel, is in keeping with their belief, that if a person is bigger and better than his fellow man, there is no need for him to use unctuous favor-seeking to gain his ends. The mind with power and purpose is the Closed mind, they feel...