Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The question of whether or not to marry had been solved with the greatest difficulty. As in his study of barnacles, he had been careful to jot down all available evidence on the nature of the married state. Against it was: "Terrible loss of time, if many children forced to...
Intellectual Exercise. Today's sport, says Irving De Koff, coach of Columbia University's defending co-champions (along with N.Y.U.), is much more of an intellectual exercise. "While trying to protect yourself, you are testing, trying your opponent. You are investigating his patterns, his attitudes, his favorite actions...
PAINTER Fernando Gerassi believes that nothing succeeds like failure. "Each time you fail," he says, "you learn something. If you have faith in yourself you accept the failure and go on. The more failures the better." This philosophy has seen Gerassi through some dark times, and brought him to a...
As an historian, Morison in 1953 offered this advise to future historians: "Bring all your knowledge of life to bear on everything you write. Never let yourself bog down in pedantry and detail. Bring History, the most humane and noble form of letters, back to the proud position she once...
Do-lt-Yourself Sink. For do-it-yourself hobbyists, American Kitchens of Connersville, Ind. put on sale a knockdown kitchen sink. Made of steel, baked enamel and porcelain, the sink can be assembled by one man using only a screwdriver and pliers. Each unit contains a regular 42-in. single...