Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mutual-fund shares and to get a job selling them. The president of an insurance company in New Delhi asked if he could come to study M.I.T.'s operations because "I feel that even in an underdeveloped economy there would be room for an institution of this type." One North Carolina man went to Boston, called on Robinson, said he owned $270,000 worth of stock in a Southern paper company, asked if he should sell and invest in M.I.T. shares. Robinson & Co. cautiously made no sales pitch, but advised the man to sell his stock. Next...
...over a mammoth crusade in New York City in 1957, came close to admitting that it had been a big flop: "It was like a flea crawling on an elephant. New York is so big that it absorbs almost anything. It's like China in that respect. Our type of crusade makes a far greater impact on a smaller city , . . Perhaps if we try it on a borough-to-borough basis, New York can be reached...
...Mate." In Clackmannanshire on the Firth of Forth, Editor John Ogilvie sat up all night setting type himself, brought out his weekly Alloa Circular and Hillfoots Record on time. Girl typists helped keep the Birmingham Mail on the streets by having a go at the Linotype machines ("Eh, mate. Can't we have overalls like you?" called one begrimed girl to a man, gasped when she recognized Eric Clayson, chairman of the board, who had donned work clothes to help out). In Devon, an ironmonger's wife who works as a stringer correspondent for several regional papers decided...
...people who held readings of plays and stories. At one of these home entertainments, the featured attraction was Beauty and the Beast, with Dick Nixon starring in the second of the two title roles. A great many of Nixon's adversaries are still convinced that this was perfect type casting...
...main task of the museums, if they are multi-purpose, is to offer the same type of general art, scientific and cultural education that the Museum of Modern Art gives to its many loyal members. (This last Museum, incidentally, especially impresses Dr. Prakash.) If the museums are "art-museums," on the other hand, a general policy of Indian-antiquities-for-the-Indians is followed, with the many excavation sites of India additionally becoming regional museums in time. Western art, on the other hand, is difficult to collect due to the (a) lack of encouragement which the ruling English gave...