Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anybody who has ever collected star fish well knows how an interesting object can in a few days turn into a wad of putrid decay; this latest addition to the literature of the down-and-out is a sign that we have a literary star fish on our hands that must be buried, and quickly...
Commenting on Monro's call for more free time for freshmen, I. Bernard Cohen '37, professor of the History of Science, advocated a reading period for freshmen, not just for upperclassmen. The students in my course are very mature, he said, and "I'd like to be able to turn them loose...
Under the circumstances, Godfrey's performance was peculiarly moving. When he climbed aboard his palomino Goldie to exhibit his amateur's skill at dressage, the demands of a bad hip made him mount like a drugstore cowboy. Somehow, after 30 years of broadcasting, he knew how to turn the awkward maneuver into an exhibition of grace and courage. "These are the things that keep us alive and kicking," he said, as he turned to his little Arab colt later in the program. "I have to come back to see what he's going to look like next...
...four-room apartment on the ninth floor of a building overlooking the Moscow River and the Kremlin. Although she earns an estimated $25,000 a year as leading ballerina of the Bolshoi, she maintains no country dacha, but drives a six-cylinder Volga, which she hopes to turn in someday for a larger car ("I dream," she says, "about its automatic shift...
...used the cash to buy yet another company. In the first quarter Porter's sales rose from last year's $32 million to $52 million, its profits from 51? per share to $1.30, after a merger with one of its subsidiaries. For Crane, Tom Evans hopes to turn a similar trick...