Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...profits on the book, reported to be over $500,000, will be taxed as capital gains (25%) instead of as personal income, thus practically doubling his earnings on it. Though it is not generally known, he accepts no salary as president of Columbia University. As a five-star general he is technically still on active duty, with total Army pay and allowances of $15,744 a year...
...Grange, star of another era and another style of football, is all for the new. Said he: "You like to get spelled off once in a while. If you aren't, it can get pretty rugged in the fourth quarter." In fact, with fresh substitutions entering all the time, fans were now more apt to get a full 60 minutes of do-or-die football...
...William Rothenstein, president of London's Royal College of Arts, felt justified in feeling peeved that day in 1923: his star pupil was deserting him. Young Uday Shankar, who had come all the way from India to study painting, was about to join Anna Pavlova's ballet troupe. "Please, persuade Mme. Pavlova not to do this," Sir William begged a friend. Replied Pavlova: "Please tell Sir William that Shankar is a born dancer. He must dance. Oh, he must dance...
...adapt them to a physical framework that the casual observer would associate more with stolid immovability than shiftiness. He has had plenty of opportunity to do so in his long and varied athletic past, which extends back to the late '20s, when he was an all around school star at Clare, Michigan...
...muddy condition of the playing field and the slippery ball didn't seem to affect freshman star Carroll Lowenstein's passing so much as the varsity's pass defense; nor did the elements appear to hamper the Jayvee offense so much as the varsity's defense. The former, imitating the Eli ground attack, ripped off frequent gains, mostly around the ends...