Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small oriental gentleman was late for his appointment. More than that he was frightened. This maze of steam pipes and empty trunks hardly seemed a fit place to meet the Secretary of Harvard University--and now he couldn't find his way back to open...
...Nymphs, Not Steam Engines." In 1914 at the age of 30, Segonzac finally held a one-man show. Paris was impressed (one collector so much so that he immediately bought several pictures), and Segonzac became a lion of the French art world. His friends were the cubists and Fauvists-Picasso, Vlaminck, Braque, Dufy-but he never let his wilder and woollier pals influence his painting, kept strictly to gentle landscapes, still lifes, and romantic nudes. Once, Poet Guillaume Apollinaire, an ardent advocate of cubism, urged him to join the movement. "Our modern age, the age of aviation," he argued, "should...
...took first place for Winthrop House. Triffterer sprinted at the start and settled down to a steady pace to keep about 100 yards between himself and his nearest rival. With about half a mile to go, Warren Little of Eliot and Pete Coker of Adams turned on the steam and almost caught him. Little finished second, about five yards behind, and Coker trailed Little by about a yard...
Author Griffin's hero is a cardboard character in a contest of more powerful wills; the monks and most of the townspeople are mere symbols of good & evil. Nevertheless-and crude, awkward and febrile as it is-The Devil Rides Outside is kept bowling along by pure writing steam. It is often repetitive and frequently staggers to a stop, but it is saved each time by a fresh burst of vigor and intensity. At novel's end the musicologist returns to the monastery, and there is the promise that he will find God and inner peace. Author Griffin...
Business School students may be nursing chronic headaches after January 14, when the Metropolitan District Commission moves in its steam shovels and drills to begin construction of a 500-foot underpass on the Boston side of the Larz Anderson Bridge...