Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashioned visual style and relentlessly stationery camera not withstanding, few directors use the camera as successfully to convey characterizations: he holds a close-up of Tippi Hedren just long enough for the actress to become uncomfortable, and in the context of the scene, Chaplin is able to transfer that quality of detached restlessness from her to the character she is playing...
...class has 300 places, and Radcliffe based its 350 admissions on the number of girls who have accepted in the past. "If all 350 came, I don't know what we would do," Dean Stimpson commented. The number who accept will determine the fate of the more than 200 transfer student applications and the small waiting list...
...Kaiser Wilhelm to thank for the Virgin Islands. Though U.S. Presidents had tried for 52 years to acquire the strategic Caribbean vantage points, it was not until Denmark-which controlled them for over two centuries-was threatened by the Germans in World War I that the Danes agreed to transfer the islands to U.S. custody. On March 31, 1917, the U.S. took title to its new possession for the fire-sale price of $25 million, paid in nearly 48 tons of gold bullion...
That windfall of war was celebrated last week in the tranquil islands with the tintinnabulation of steel bands and church bells. A commemorative 6? airmail postcard-the first in U.S. history-was issued for the fortnight-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Transfer Day. Denmark sent officials and exhibits, and the Danish flag was hoisted again beside the old Government House. The islanders cavorted and caroused at horse races, baseball games, parades, masquerade parties and firework shows...
...Freedom Budget is the A. Philip Randolph Institute's proposal to spend $185 billion of federal funds over the next ten years to create new jobs and to increase Social Security and other transfer payments. The Budget is on a much grander scale than the poverty program...