Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under this plan, the forthcoming G & S production, Yeoman of the Guard, will be presented at Barnard between semesters this winter. Next academic year, the Barnard group will journey to Cambridge for a production at Agassiz...
Stateroom & Sundaes. Other problems existed besides language. His entire wardrobe consisted of one jacket, one pair of slacks, one pair of shoes, two pairs of blue jeans. But by the St. Paul's catalogue, he needed a much fuller list of clothes, including winter boots and coats. Charles Stafford, a tavern owner from Laconia, N.H. visiting Morocco on a trade mission, met the boy, decided to help. He went home and raised $500 from his state's Rotary Clubs. Adeline Martin, a clerical worker at the Nouasseur air-base near Casablanca, sold the Volkswagen...
...tries to confuse opponents by creating an impression of wildness while actually playing with hard logic. He has a habit of staring at opponents with what an old acquaintance calls "the coldest eyes in bridge." Captain of the U.S. team that lost the world championship match to Italy last winter, Crawford is an inveterate gambler, plays poker, canasta, gin and pinochle for money, as well as bridge. Well supplied with the egoism that seems necessary to bridge greatness, he was once asked to name his ideal partner, unhesitatingly rasped out his answer: "Another John Crawford...
...most difficult statue I have made." Milles early turned down the suggested subject for the memorial, a figure of the Good Samaritan, in favor of St. Martin of Tours, a 4th century Roman soldier. Something of a Samaritan himself, St. Martin, in the depths of the drastic, winter of 332 A.D. in France, cut his cloak in two with his sword and gave half to a freezing beggar. To give full scope to his heroic theme, Milles carved a 14-ft.-high figure of St. Martin on horseback splitting his cloak, and the beggar, hand upraised, at the base...
...bottom of the decline last October. But few security analysts are willing to "argue with the tape." i.e., what the market has done in the face of falling profits. As the market has picked up steam, more and more of them have become bullish. Only a minority last winter foresaw the rise. Some of that minority's present opinions...