Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Isaacs, onetime Theodore Roosevelt Bull Mooser, the only councilman to vote no to secession: "Remember that more than one-half of the prisoners in state institutions come from New York City . . . What would you do with all the criminals you now farm out to institutions upstate? Would you turn Staten Island into Alcatraz...
Founder. Gautama, the Buddha, the Enlightened One, was born in northern India six centuries before Christ. As the devout tradition goes, Gautama, a king's son, married a beautiful princess, had a child and lived in silken luxury until he was 29. Then, seeing in turn a sick man, a corpse and an emaciated holy man, he was shocked into a realization of the harshness of life. He became a penniless wanderer and for six years mortified his flesh before deciding that extreme asceticism was not the path of deliverance...
...master of many. In ten years he has worked on something like 30 films, composing, arranging, orchestrating and conducting quite a few entirely on his own, including It's Always Fair Weather and Bad Day at Black Rock. By "cheating every minute," he has managed to turn out a symphony and a quantity of piano works and chamber music. As a concert pianist, he admires the moderns-Copland, Barber. Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok-but he has also recorded all the four-hand piano music of Mozart, with his good friend Composer Lukas Foss. His jazz manner...
Williams, pitcher-outfielder from Oklahoma City, will play in left, except when he takes his turn on the mound. Switch-batter Williams is a long-ball hitter and will bat cleanup. Also very strong at the plate is Drummey, left-handed lead off man, who hits to all fields. Morse and Bernstein, who bats from the left side, are also expected to compile high averages this spring...
...success of the varsity depends to a large extent upon its opposition. Yale lost its famous Olympic stern pair through graduation, and several other key men through injuries, but they too have a squad with a depth which could easily turn out a powerful varsity boat. On last year's performance both Cornell, which swept the IRA regatta on Lake Cayuga last June, and Pennsylvania must be rated as strong rivals...