Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post put Greenough in line as heir to James M. Symes, who moved up from president to chairman and remained chief executive officer. Symes, 62, plans to retire in 2½ years, in Pennsy fashion wanted to pick his successor well ahead of time...
...buck at his door. Married and father of two sons, he is used to putting in a ten-hour day, gathering his own facts by pounding the rails. As chief administrative officer, he will be in charge of the road's everyday operation, will have even less time for the golf and woodworking that he enjoyed before the lightning struck...
...electronic flight-information board, three-lane enclosed auto driveways that lead into the first and second floors, a dining room, cocktail lounge, and arcades for shops. Jutting out on either side of the terminal are two null loading arcades that can handle as many as 24 aircraft at a time...
Jogging Verse. Each Greek leader, of course, has his day of bloodshed-even Agamemnon is transformed for a few lines into a ferocious slaughterer of Trojans. Homer found this a necessary dodge, Graves believes, because powerful men in the poet's time considered themselves descendants of Troy's besiegers. While Homer composed in verse, presumably because it made the Iliad easier for court singers to memorize. Graves uses a combination of jogging, rhymed verse-for invocations, hymns and similes-and clear, unornamented, semicolloquial prose. His opening invocation suggests the rhymed couplets of Alexander Pope's Iliad: Sing...
During World War I, James Joyce mailed his manuscript of Ulysses, bit by bit, from Zurich to London, and for a time British censors suspected the book of being an enemy code. It was a prophetic incident; for decades Joyce would inspire battles between the code sniffers and the cult worshipers. Once when asked why he put so many puzzlers into his works, Joyce replied: "To occupy my critics for 300 years." Richard Ellmann, professor of English at Northwestern University, worked a mere seven years on this huge biography, but its great and fascinating merit is that it demystifies Joyce...