Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize for 1958-9 has been awarded to Wililam M. McPeak 1L, McPeak was judged best fitted to be influenced by Saltonstall's example and in turn to influence others...
...pursue it, he lived in hunger and rags, moving often and taking to the road for long stretches. The poor Belgian miners to whose grandfathers the young Van Gogh had ministered as a tortured divinity student were amazed when the ragged Appel appeared to paint them in his turn, in their turn ministered to him, sharing what they had with the hot-eyed and hungry traveler...
...Pacific Northwest lumber industry, in a price recession since July, noted a turn-around in buying for 1960 construction. Price of the most popular grade of plywood jumped $4 per 1,000 bd. ft. in the week...
...plans to shift over its Metuchen (N.J.) Mercury plant to produce Ford's Falcon and the new Comet, scheduled to make its appearance next spring. Ford will not cut back on Mercury -other Mercury plants will take up the slack. It just needs a third production facility to turn out all the compacts the U.S. public apparently wants...
...best-kept secrets of World War II was spilled by British Historian Arthur Bryant in a book called The Turn of the Tide (TIME, May 20, 1957). Who really devised the strategy that defeated Germany? Bryant's answer: General Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1941 to 1946. How did Historian Bryant know? Because the general -now Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke-had said so in his diary, which is the meat and bones of The Turn of the Tide. As Brooke saw it, the Americans were military chumps and not always well-meaning ones. His boss...