Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front for most of the running of the $88,100 Wood Memorial at New York's Jamaica race track. But the pace was too fast, and a 64-to-1 long shot named Manassa Mauler charged through on the inside, won by three-quarters of a length to take $55,915 first money...
Schoolmaster Rice, who does not know Greek but is resolutely planning a cram course for this summer, will spend next school year learning his job under Davis. The school that he will take over in September 1960 now has 1,050 students, a healthy endowment of $1.6 million (contributed mostly by Greek-Americans, partly by Athenian Greeks), and a spectacular, 35-acre mountain campus. Teaching, done mostly in Greek, follows roughly the curriculum prescribed by the nation's Ministry of Education, including instruction in the Greek Orthodox religion. But the school is not an austere learning factory, as most...
...people disapproved. "Perhaps," said Baptist Miller, "we've reached the point where these traditional divisions are no longer terribly important-and we've learned to take each other less seriously." Yet quite a few people were surprised at his appointment to succeed retiring Congregationalist Douglas Horton, 67: Harvard, with such top scholars on its faculty as Paul Tillich, Richard Niebuhr, Amos Wilder, and Britain's Christopher Dawson, had chosen a parish pastor...
...first paddle-wheel satellite will not try for Venus, but will follow a long elliptical orbit that will take it about 30,000 miles from the earth. It will carry various instruments, but its principal job will be to answer promptly when spoken to. If all goes well, it will draw on its stored solar power and speak in a loud radio voice. Then its designers can judge whether a transmitter of this type can be made loud enough to be heard from Venus...
Word went round Detroit that G.M. was ready to scrap well-liked Ed Ragsdale. Finding a replacement was not easy: few of G.M.'s success-conscious comers wanted to take on Buick's woes. One G.M. veep, so the story went, was offered Ragsdale's job, nervously said no: "This is a promotion I don't deserve. Can't you please find somebody else to reward...