Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion picture that will be shown at the dinners, "To the Age That Is Waiting," has been completed and screened by officials in Cambridge. Filmed last spring and summer, it shows the College today and emphasizes its needs for the future...
...Last spring French left his wife and three children in Puerto Rico, returned to the U.S. temporarily for a weapons refresher-training course. At the end of the course he got leave, proceeded to put into action a plan that would wipe clean all his debts. French went to Washington, on April 5 took a late-evening stroll past the sand brick Russian Embassy on 16th Street. At the embassy he paused, tossed through the fence a letter addressed "To Whom It May Concern." For $27,500, said the letter, "I believe I can furnish you with valuable military information...
...shot in the back from his own party. The key to a Democratic victory rests in Hudson County, where last election Meyner won almost half his 154,000-vote plurality over Republican Candidate Paul Troast. Now Hudson is racked by internecine warfare; "Victory Ticket" Democrats, who last spring wrested control of Jersey City away from Boss John V. Kenny, this election are trying to take the whole county. The conflict and confusion may rob Meyner of many of the votes he needs to roll up in Hudson in order to overcome a Forbes edge in such heavily Republican counties...
...school graduates to all six schools. "We discourage any student who just wants a roof over his head for four years," says Oberlin's President William E. Stevenson. Oberlin gets 75% of its students from outside Ohio, has been called the best coed college in the nation. Each spring, talent scouts from top graduate schools show up to recruit leading seniors. Says Stevenson: "If Oberlin recommends them, they get off to a fine start." Still, Oberlin's high standards have one built-in drawback: the students sometimes become smugly complacent about their intellectual superiority. Cracks one Ohio Wesleyan...
...strongly appealing lyricism. His symphonies, with their acrid dissonances, their brassy shouts and cool, lonely instrumentation, seemed even closer to the stark northern land. Although Sibelius testily denied the implication that he wrote music merely descriptive of nature, he would say: "The seasons are like movements in a symphony. Spring is adagio, the fall is scherzo...