Word: transition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Astrologist Rupert Gleadow last week revealed how the stars stand. It is easy as pie to tell who will win, said Gleadow, but tough to write about it, because he doesn't want to discourage anybody. His news: at the time of the election, "General Eisenhower suffers the transit of Neptune and Saturn over his Sun," and that is really bad. His conclusion: Stevenson, like a shooting star. ¶Adlai Stevenson, a pharmacist in Greenville, Texas, joined the national Stevensons-for-Eisenhower Club. Texas Adlai, no kin, though he was named for the Democratic candidate's grandfather (Vice...
Because there are few players even in New York who can give him a tough game, Reshevsky gets most of his over-the-board practice from Rapid Transit chess (one move every ten seconds) and sometimes plays strong opponents blindfolded...
...Chicago Transit Authority was asked to set up portable toilets on Astor Street. The Gold Coast was spared this indignity when the Maryknoll Brothers, across from Blair house, opened their bathroom to the press on a 24-hour basis...
...shock to oldtime fans to find persons named Piersall, Lepcio, and Throneberry performing in place of the Doerrs, Peskys, Williamses, and Goodmans of former days, but a team can not do too much better than first place. To get to Fenway Park, you Rapidly Transit to Park Street, go upstairs, and take a Streetcar Named Watertown to Kenmore Square...
...original telescope and its housing ranged from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to the Revere Copper Company. The lenses for the first telescope then called the Great Refractor, came from Munich in 1846 and 1847 and by June, 1847, the telescope was in use. A transit circle then came from London and the first $100,000 endowment--was received from the Phillips Fund shortly afterwards...