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Word: whitmans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works under a comfortable grant from the Mellon educational trust, is as prolific as ever. He has extensively revised the Seventh Symphony since it was first played in Chicago in 1952, has already started his eighth (specifically designed for recording) and ninth ("On the words of Walt Whitman"). Says he: "I am trying to achieve a dynamic form, something that grows like a tree grows. This new form is something I believe America is going to produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Tree Grows in Pittsburgh | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...small liberal arts colleges that Elder will visit are Pomona, Occidental, Reed, Whitman, Carlton, Grinnell, Lawrence, Kenyon, and Oberlin. He said that he does not plan to visit universities, because he does not want to offer competition for their graduate schools...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Elder Will Scour West For G.S.A.S. Applicants | 10/28/1955 | See Source »

Briggs Hall placed second ("Three more years of Harvard men/ The ratio's one to ten"). Saville House sand "If someone would do pre-med with me/ I'd learn anatomy/ Harvard has the cure for you," while Whitman complained that Harvard men ". . . would rather go to Wheaten/ To find girls who put the heat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Conjures Rain In Soggy Song-Feast | 10/25/1955 | See Source »

Miss Radcliffe of 1959 will appear tonight during the intermission of the Winthrop House Dance. Judged on poise, personality, and general appearance, the winner will follow the reign of Marie Winn '58. The contestants include Anne Baker of Whitman Hall and New Canaan, Conn., Elizabeth Bulkely Borden of Briggs Hall and Concord, Mass., Elizabeth Holland Carleton of Holmes Hall and New Canaan, Conn., Cynthia Stuart Carmichael of Cabot Hall and Perryburg, Ohio, and Mary Lou Severn of Moors Hall and Norwick, Conn. The judges also picked another finalist, Mary Louise Nunes of Moors Hall and East Providence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Compete for Miss Radcliffe Tonight | 10/1/1955 | See Source »

...original fieldstone wing of the 100-year-old house. The President sat down at a small pine desk and glumly contemplated a stack of bills to be signed into law. "I built this as an office,"' he explained as he began to sign the bills that Secretary Ann Whitman handed him. "But Mrs. Eisenhower took it over, and the only office I have left is six foot square." Earlier the President had confided that he and Mamie had had a dis agreement about vacations. "My wife doesn't want me to go back to Washington, and she doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Farmer in the Dell | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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