Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explain to their Detroit neighbors where all their money was coming from, retired Police Sergeant Glenn Averill and his wife Mamie worked out a simple, effective routine. Glenn would tell prying questioners that his wife had inherited a lot of money. Mamie would turn aside the inquisitive by hinting that her husband came from a wealthy family...
...what would we do for the next fifty years? Our predecessors did not seal up their choices, but we can still benefit by their wisdom and turn our attention to the leaders of the past. This June the world should hear again the names of those chosen in 1910: Charles Evans Hughes, Thomas Leonard Livermore, Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, John Pierpont Morgan, Sir John Murray, Horace Porter, George Walter Prothero, Theodore William Richards, Theobald Smith, John Eliot Thayer, Samuel Williston, Robert Archey Woods. James A. Sharaf...
Lowell not only accepted the offer, but announced it immediately to the Governing Board who in turn were so enthusiastic that Harkness decided to increase his gift to $10 million, thereby providing for seven Houses. Three of these were to be built entirely new, the other four from existing freshmen houses by the River...
...Investment Bankers Association of America last week in Bal Harbour, Fla., outgoing President William D. Kerr posed a challenge: "I visualize a titanic struggle between the forces that would foster and perpetuate our local governments and our right to the well-known freedoms and those who would turn these United States into a huge federal omnibus in which the individual would be reduced to being a number in a file...
...circles of a neo-Dantean inferno. In Stationary, the patients are strapped into chairs to groan, curse and soil themselves through the day. In Hydro, a patient is wrapped mummy-fashion in icy wet sheets for 72 hours at a stretch. In the "untidy" wards the bedridden turn their heads obsessively from side to side, rubbing off the hair and even the skin from their scalps. Such weekly rituals as Bath Day, when the patients are divested of rubber bands, bits of tobacco and the last shreds of dignity, are recorded with repellent candor...