Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succeeded Robert Hutchins as head of the University of Chicago was bound to run into special problems. Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton has been no exception. In just under six years he has gone far in returning the college to a normal four-year curriculum, favored the revival of football, thrown himself into such necessary activities as clearing the slums around the campus. As a result, many facultymen, whether they agreed with Hutchins or not, have missed the high excitement of his regime, and for one reason or another, some of Chicago's top scholars have drifted away...
Most recently Picasso has thrown himself enthusiastically into makiag a full-length film, Le Mystere Picasso, a dazzling display of Picasso's technique, which had its U.S. premiere this month as part of the museum's Picasso exhibit. In it Picasso undertakes to paint a new canvas from scratch before the camera's eyes. Naked to the waist, white hair bristling on his chest, Picasso proclaims with calculated drama: "One must risk everything." Ad-libs Director Henri-Georges Clouzot solemnly: 'That's going to be dangerous." Says Picasso: "Out, that is what I seek." While...
Before 10,000 spectators and the Band of the Grenadier Guards in London on July 23, 1904, H-Y moved one-up in the series, winning 6-3. The visitors had been thrown into a mild panic when only two days before the meet, Harvard's Murphy, favored to win the high jump, suddenly and unexplainedly left for home. Yale's G. F. Vietor, however, allayed their fears by winning the event...
Batter McDougald, thrown out at first by the Cleveland third baseman who retrieved the ball, raced back to help. Score's face was already blackening, his nose was broken, a dangerous hemorrhage was clouding his eyeball. Even before they examined him in a hospital, specialists were wondering whether they could save his sight. At 23, already one of the fastest and potentially one of the finest pitchers in the history of the game, Herb Score seemed finished with baseball...
...fifth of them will do the Windsor-Stratford-on-Avon-Warwick Castle-Edinburgh packaged run. But more and more are turning up in Torquay, the poor man's Riviera, and in Brighton, Britain's Atlantic City, or in the picturesque homes of British aristocracy which have been thrown open, at a fee, to tourists. Last week the Duke of Bedford, one of the most businesslike of the stately-home owners, laid on a lunch of home-slaughtered-bison pie at Woburn Abbey for a luxury tour of 51 Americans. Although they have paid more for their food, fuel...