Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of the drowning Thursday on the Charles River, the Department of Athletics has instituted the use of red record cards for cases in which the Freshman swimming test is passed with restrictions, Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, confirmed yesterday...
Jacques Natleau wisely chooses to use his camera as an omniscient narrator. Rather than expressing the attitude of one character, Natleau impartially examines all motivations, significantly lending the film ambiguity. In siding with neither the Christ nor the Pilate, he leaves the audience with the task of choosing the hero, if there...
...foreign-currency business in 1936. After serving as a private in the British Army during World War II. Jasper quickly built up a small investment bank, joined forces with another Berlin refugee, a sharp lawyer named Friedrich Grunwald. Operating H. Jasper & Co., the two began to move fast, using the take-over expert's favorite tactic: after acquiring the controlling shares of a company, they would sell off its property, lease it back, use the cash acquired to buy more companies. H. Jasper & Co. gathered up blocks of apartment houses, movie theaters, billiard halls and a tannery, raked...
...economic adjustment that would 1) step up production of gold, 2) increase the free world's purchasing power in dollars by some $20 billion (if the price were doubled), 3) bring most of the $10 billion to $12 billion in gold hoarded by wary Europeans back into productive use...
Died. Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, 89, spare, retiring biologist who pioneered (1907) in growing cells independent of the organism from which they were taken, stimulated a pupil, Dr. John Enders, to use the same tissue-culture method to grow a polio virus (1949) that led to the Salk vaccine, taught biology and zoology (1907-38) at Yale; in New Haven, Conn...