Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design (left), and James L. Harris (center), Secretary of the Alumni Association, joined Reginald R. Isaacs, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning, in presenting Miss Cook with Hawaiian leis, a trunk labeled with stickers, and this graphic itinerary...
...that any increase in traction would offset the increased inertia. If it had been allowed, I would have experimented with the best results, with and without the added weight. As it was, I did not hope to smuggle a 200 or 300-lb. block of iron, lying on the trunk floor, through a microscopic inspection. Aside from moral and racing considerations, this is a slur on the mentality of one who got all the way to Florida all by himself...
...long day passes into night and they have all tried their escapes, they come together again to one another. The memories--Mary's wedding-dress, Edwin Booth's praise for James years ago--lie in the attic trunk above, whispering waste and despair. Love has imposed a mighty toll upon their lives, but in the end it binds them together, wracked by pity and fear. Young Edmund's hopeless citation of Nietzsche, "God is dead: of His pity for man hath God died," is forgotten. O'Neill has forgiven the Tyrones as we must forgive all mankind...
...cutthroat competition, said that three small lines, for example, could pool their ten monthly flights and run what would amount to a fully scheduled service. But the CAB pointed out that most nonskeds are only one or two-plane operations, are far too small to hurt the big trunk lines. Furthermore, said CAB, it had specifically reserved the right to reduce the number of scheduled flights if nonskeds started ganging up on the most profitable runs flown by big carriers. Said a CAB official: "This is a classic example of crying before you're hurt. The plain fact...
...depict Adam and Eve (see cut) Brancusi returned not to full-bloom Renaissance goddesses but to woman as a primitive symbol of fertility, and Adam as the product of his primitive tools, axed out of wood with a neck suggesting both a tree trunk and a wine press. In a narrow smoothly polished pebble, Brancusi sees the genesis of the fish form; expanded in his streamlined Fish, done in blue-grey marble, it becomes the prototype of all fish, hovering in space as if water were freshly washing past...