Word: abrams
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...going to make the mistake of land constriction," Abram L. Sachar, president of Brandeis says. "We want an organic campus for our university which will include nine graduate schools and 2000 students by 1960." These are ambitious plans for a two-year-old institution, which started with a few run-down buildings and the purpose of making a corporate contribution to American higher learning on the part of the country's Jewish community...
...admiration was understandable. Inquiring around in Local 802, 66-year-old Cellist Abram Goutkin had found an orchestra-full of retired symphony musicians who had yielded their chairs to younger men but were by no means ready to quit playing. Onetime New York Symphony First Trumpeter Vincent C. Buono, 74, and such 78-year-old gaffers as Violinist Fred Schaefer and Violist Solomon Pressman were enthusiastic about Gout-kin's idea of forming an old fellows' outfit. Sixty others were rounded up in no time...