Word: contributor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college recognized industrial growth by adding mechanical arts to its curriculum. In 1894, it held its first six-week course for dairymen, the starting point of its present vast Continuing Education Service. By 1901, the college had grown into such an essential contributor to the state's welfare that the legislature enacted a special tax to guarantee it up to $100,000 a year...
...Democratic Senator Walter George (who was recovering from bronchial trouble), and slipped behind the wheel of his blue Chrysler. He drove alone, through the stifling Washington heat, across the Potomac and 40 miles into Virginia to "Huntlands," the rolling estate of George Brown, Houston contractor and lavish contributor to Johnson's political campaigns. It was a trip from which Lyndon Johnson would return in a few hours-in an ambulance. He had suffered a coronary occlusion; doctors said his condition was serious...
...issue of Confidential, Harrison ran an article buttering up Hearst Columnist Walter Winchell. It paid off. Winchell promptly became a one-man promotion agency for the magazine, fired with new enthusiasm for it every time Confidential ran another article praising him or attacking his enemies. (Harrison obligingly became a contributor to Winchell's Damon Runyon Memorial Fund.) Harrison also found a way to use Confidential articles over and over again in another of his magazines, Whisper ("The Stones Behind the Headlines...
...work at 1 a.m., takes a two-hour nap at 3, works until breakfast at 8:30, then finishes for the day at noon. Between articles Taylor has written seven books, on everything from Winston Churchill to W. C. Fields, also writes occasional fiction and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.* Many another successful free-lancer carves out a specialized area for himself, e.g., J.D. Ratcliff, science and medicine, Howard Whitman, popular sociology. But even the "specialists" go far afield if they come across an article idea that interests them-and the editor of a magazine they write...
Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, has been singled out as the University's "leading contributor to science and the benefit of mankind," with the first award of the newly-established George Ledlie Prize...