Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition Americans have a chance to love a happy old man without looking toward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Santa Claus does not worry about big spending and never has diplomatic problems. Besides all this, it's good to drink egg nog instead of gin punch, and very few people complain about your singing if you join in on carols...
M.I.T.'s surge toward scientific eminence was begun by President (1930-48) Karl Compton. Under Killian and Right-Hand Man Stratton a new reform was pushed through: raising the departments of humanities and social sciences to the status of the institute's other professional schools. At 57, Physicist "J" Stratton is well qualified to understand the importance of the humanities; after he graduated from M.I.T., he made the grand tour, spent much of his time studying French literature at the Universities of Grenoble and Toulouse. He earned his doctorate in mathematical physics at Zurich, returned to M.I.T...
...types learned about the vengeance of the Irish underground. By the time Bond got his charges to Sacramento, returned to St. Joe via sailboat around the Horn and started West once more to meet the samurai, his train had climbed steadily in the ratings. Last week it was rolling toward the top of both Trendex and Nielsen...
...sank a difficult lay-up shot. Moments later, with the ball in his hands once again, he started to turn for a hook shot. Hit hard by an N.Y.U. player, he fell heavily to the court, but on the way down he somehow managed to arch the ball toward the basket with a flick of his powerful wrists. As he lay flat on his back, Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson watched the ball drop through the hoop. His expression was casual, as if he had expected it all along. The 14,587 spectators in New York's Madison Square...
Members of the production staff felt that the show could be produced at a minimum cost of $1295, although miscellaneous costs might bring it toward the $1600 allotted for Government Inspector. The Broadway musical, which concerns two girls seeking jobs in New York, could be adapted to a Cambridge locale, the staff suggested...