Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haven Railroad. "This is absolutely unessential." Says E. F. Bidez, vice president of the Central of Georgia Railroad: "In 1958 we paid firemen on freight and switch engines $1,005,000. Considering the fact that we could get along without most of them, that's a good bit of money. It's 50% of the net earned last year." The Great Northern Railroad reports that it paid $21 million for time not worked...
...Yale the eminent school it is, much has happened in the past few years to discourage sympathetic observers. A while back, Yalies were forced to wear ties during meals, a measure equivalent to giving waist coats to Hottentots. Then last year the students were put on probation after a bit of restlessness in the streets. Just two weeks ago, President A. Whitney Griswold returned to the classroom to teach a class and muffed the word "epistemology" (misdefined it, not misspelled it). Yale's friends all over cannot but ask themselves, "Is the old school slipping...
...impotence of giants and their helplessness at the hands of destiny and trivial accident, the presence of some few gaints onstage is essential. Lawrence Channing, as the Hector determined to avert the Trojan War, never manages to achieve heroic stature. In his initial appearance, returning victorious from a two-bit war, he bounds onstage like a ten-year-old running to mother and bestows on Andromache a puerile peck. He does sometimes, however, rise from his adolescent manner to the posture of a warrior. His oration to the dead on the closing of the Gate of War is most convincing...
...trip. New look on the diplomatic team: Daughter-in-Law Barbara Eisenhower, who will accompany Ike's aide and son, Major John, and act as hostess on behalf of Mamie Eisenhower. The First Lady, said Ike at his press conference, will stay home-"It is a little bit tough, I think, for her on that kind of a mission...
During World War I, James Joyce mailed his manuscript of Ulysses, bit by bit, from Zurich to London, and for a time British censors suspected the book of being an enemy code. It was a prophetic incident; for decades Joyce would inspire battles between the code sniffers and the cult worshipers. Once when asked why he put so many puzzlers into his works, Joyce replied: "To occupy my critics for 300 years." Richard Ellmann, professor of English at Northwestern University, worked a mere seven years on this huge biography, but its great and fascinating merit is that it demystifies Joyce...