Word: vies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such elite schools as Harvard, Stanford or Pennsylvania's Wharton start out at an annual average of close to $17,000, up $1,000 or more from last year. The number of companies actively recruiting has increased nearly 15% since 1972. At Harvard, 861 recruiters showed up to vie for 777 graduates. The school collected the students' resumes in a book and sold it for $75 a copy...
...when Harvard, Princeton and Yale meet this Saturday to vie for the Goldthwaite Cup on the Housatonic River in Derby, Conn., the boys from Old Nassau will once again be making a grab for a real live Harvard jersey...
...undefeated Radcliffe sailing team will vie for the Jerry Reed Trophy on the Charles River this weekend in the most important contest for the team so far during this season...
...before he died had been a day like many others at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, his hilltop villa at Mougins on the French Riviera. Late in the afternoon the artist had taken a walk in the little park that surrounds his sprawling stone house overlooking the reddish foothills of the Maritime Alps. He liked now and then to gather flowers and vegetables in the garden, often taking them inside to draw. "That day I showed him the anemones and pansies, which he particularly liked," recalls Jacques Barra, Picasso's gardener...
...space for his paintings and sculptures. But he soon changed his mind. Few friends dropped by as they did on the Riviera, and it was too far from the sea to enable him to take an occasional swim. Finally, in 1961, Picasso decided to move to Notre-Dame-de-Vie and the balmier climate of the Riviera back country. There he kept up his prodigious pace, filling one room after another with paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, sculptures-and building on to the house when necessary...