Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prout noted that many of the doctors who signed the petition teach only part time and have their own private practices. "Our beliefs do not represent an ivory-tower approach," he said. Prout himself was in private practice for 15 years before joining the Health Services last Fall...
...last hundred years, works tower above all the . They operate at the highest , theoretical, idealis- yet they provide guide- for practice. The first is Henry Cardinal Newman's of a University (final on 1873). The second is North Whitehead's The Aims Education and Other Essays especially the first seven . The third is Mark Van Liberal Education (1943). now available in paper- No college president should another dean, no dean hire another professor, and, almost tempted to say, no should face another room who has not pondered three books...
...efforts of the new breed have already paid off in small ways. In the last two years, Republicans have elected a mayor in Mobile, put the first two party members in the South Carolina legislature since Reconstruction, and sent Texas' John Tower to the U.S. Senate. Southern Republicans talk of doubling their number of Congressmen from seven to 14 this November, a hope that may prove forlorn. Clearly, the new breed has a long way to go. But at least and at last it has made a beginning...
...friends." To addicts, "Rosa's'' was not so much home as a Mad Hatter's champagne party. They called Rosa the Duchess of Jermyn Street, and rated her and the Cavendish itself as two of the three most rewarding landmarks in London (with the Tower, which has not taken many boarders since the 16 century). The mid-Mayfair hotel remained for decades one of the last places in all England where, as Evelyn Waugh wrote of it in Vile Bodies, "one can still draw up, cool and uncontaminated, great, healing draughts of Edwardian certainty...
...years ago, an 8-lb. dumbbell used to prop a window screen slipped from a maid's frantic grasp and plummeted eight floors from the Ritz Tower Hotel to hit and fatally injure a vacationing Detroit financier walking up Manhattan's 57th Street toward Park Avenue with his wife. Ending a $500,000 suit against the apartment's owners. TV Star Arlene Francis and her husband, Producer Martin Gabel, the widow of Alvin Rodecker settled for $175,000 from the Gabels and $10,000 from the Ritz Tower, both insured for such public liability...