Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...checks written last May by the treasurer of last year's Combined Charities Drive have not yet been mailed to the charities, the Student Council learned last night from Gregory B. Stone '58, chairman of last year's drive. Council president Larry R. Johnson '58 said he would mail these checks immediately...
...checks were not mailed, Stone said, because the treasurer could not find the addresses of some of the charities who were to receive them. Among these unmailed checks are ones to the March of Dimes and the U. S. Olympic Fund. The Council also discovered that a check dated in March to be deposited to the Combined Charities had not yet been taken to the bank...
...been urging technological progress in lithography ever since boyhood, when he chided his father, owner of a small lithography shop in Indianapolis, for sticking with old-fashioned techniques. After he became a lithographer himself, the younger Swayduck saw technological changes-rotary instead of flatbed presses, metal instead of stone plates, new color-printing techniques-lead to more and more jobs for lithographers at higher and higher pay (now $125 to $200 for a 35-hour week). Convinced that unions ought to promote higher productivity, not resist it, Swayduck has fought the featherbedding that made many a printshop worker resemble...
...rumbled down from the north to pillage.* When he withdrew, after raids in 598 and 587 B.C., the people of Gibeon must have found their city wrecked and the pool contaminated. Apparently they tumbled in boulders from the town's wreckage, then filled the well's broad stone shaft with earth, clay and bits of pottery...
...individually, for taken together they show a certain sameness of ideas, treatment, even phrasing. At his worst, O'Connor slips into the bathetic romanticism of the late Donn (The Woman of the Shee) Byrne; at his best, he writes like a James Joyce who has kissed the Blarney stone...