Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they progressed and sought personal vocabularies, the two painters began to diverge in their statements. The loss to Bloom in this exhibition is precisely that his mature expression, of which color is a strong positive factor, is largely missing. The chandelier series, the amputated limb series--harder to take than Soutine's carcasses but fine painting all the same--are unfortunately absent...
...Andover raise its enrollment from 790 boys (30% of them on scholarships) to about 850. Not all the academy's plans involve construction and large chunks of cash; in recent years a broad system of honors courses has been instituted, and boys with special ability are encouraged to take exams that will let them skip routine college courses. Last week, deep in plans for improving his academy, Headmaster Kemper explained his purpose-to meet "an era of unparalleled rapidity of change with new ideas, new attitudes, and new techniques and tools, while holding fast to the enduring values...
...been an investigative reporter for a long time," says Reporter Trimble, "and some things just smell. You know there's something boiling away under the surface if you can just take time to dig it out." After his solid series of solid beats, Scripps-Howard has given Trimble plenty of time. Sprung from his desk...
...visit. He is expected to show up for Sunday dinner, stay until Saturday afternoon. In those six days he gets a thorough going-over by psychologists and psychiatrists, but no hint of psychoanalysis-there is not a couch in the place. The only strict rule: every subject must take daily walks over the surrounding hills...
...short-term Treasury bills to above 2½%, thus tempting commercial banks to "play the spread" by borrowing money from the Federal Reserve at 2½% and putting it into Government securities that yield more. The Fed's discount-rate increase will stop this practice, was timed to take place between Treasury financings so as not to upset the market...