Word: synonyms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maxon's creed: "'Museum' is no synonym for 'graveyard,' 'antique shop' or 'warehouse.' Personally, I believe that the museum must show its treasures with awareness of salesmanship and showmanship which is evident in a first-rate shop window or a Broadway show." Last week the new boss briskly proposed some changes for Chicago: "I hope some time to restore chronological sequence in the displays, and I should like to re-establish the American wing. Also I want to have two galleries devoted to Chicago art. We have an obligation...
...Harvard was become a synonym for the nadir of collegiate football; and the Class of 1925, which remembered better days, was to give $35,000 to the College for the frank purpose of athletic scholarships. With this gesture amateur football, which had known Harvard as a cradle, now looked down into its open grave...
...Haas Jr., 42, vice president of San Francisco's famed Levi Strauss & Co., stepped up to president, succeeding his uncle (by marriage), Daniel E. Koshland, 65. Haas represents the fourth generation of Strausses to run the 108-year-old firm that has made "Levi's" a synonym for all blue jeans. Son of Board Chairman Walter A. Haas, he graduated from Harvard Business School ('39), started as a $100-a-month factory worker. ¶Stuart T. Saunders, 48, executive vice president of Norfolk & Western Railway Co., became president, succeeding retiring Robert H. Smith, 69. After graduating from...
...finding a synonym would be difficult: "'Tis Pity She's a Paramour" or "'Tis Pity She's a Lady of the Evening" have neither the simplicity nor the zip of the original. It is too late now, but the HDC could have combined a tasteful community-wide promotion of the play with a provocative and money-making contest. Using an eye-catching photograph of the heroine and barring all English concentrators from the game, the contest posters might have looked something like this...
...novel about the search for IT currently being led by the Beat Generation, to put the situation in Kerouac's own unequivocal bop-talk. Anyone who's ever listed to Symphony Sid will dig that immediately. For the uninitiated, "down-and-outers" may be offered as a synonym for "Beat Generation," albeit a weak one. Loosely defined, the term can be applied to almost anybody from 15 to 40 who thinks that things are in a hell of a mess so you might as well have a good time. IT is probably best described as an "ECTSTATICALLY Good Time," though...