Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principals in this affair are Gene Massie, a lecherous old politician running for governor, and Harrison Garner, a local schoolteacher and a liberal. Garner's wife, who is a nymphomaniac, also figures prominently in the plot, and ultimately proves the undoing of both Massie and her husband...
Heading home from Washington for the holiday recess, New Jersey's freshman Senator Harrison Williams echoed the cry of many another Capitol Hill Democrat about President Eisenhower's proposals for a balanced budget in fiscal 1960. The whole notion, said "Pete" Williams, was "mythical." At about the same time last week, Pete Williams & Co. got some studied support for their argument: a staff report from the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation flatly predicted that the Eisenhower Administration's hopes for a balanced budget are doomed to red-ink disappointment. Federal income in 1960, said...
...concert Conductor Price had lined up a sampling from the growing literature for percussion ensembles. Included were Malloy Miller's Prelude for Percussion, Lou Harrison's Canticle No. j, Arthur Cohn's Quotations in Percussion, Michael Colgrass' Three Brothers. The most interesting was the Harrison piece, which laid down a hauntingly languorous theme on the ocarina, then echoed itself in a series of guitar, xylophone and muted cowbell flights as vaporous and softly glowing as a Japanese watercolor. Cohn's Quotations, on the other hand, utilized 103 instruments (including the exposed strings of a grand...
...Susan Harrison, a "find" when the film was first made, who has since enjoyed an undistinguished career, is adequately pathetic as Suzy. Driven from the happiness of her first love to attempted suicide by her brother ("I'd rather be dead than live with you"), Suzy is inextricably caught in the web of corruption, and it is a wonder that she comes out of it all alive...
...single event can be said to have touched off the farm revolution, it was the development of hybrid corn. It opened the eyes of farmers and scientists alike to the vast increase that could be made in food production. Following Mendelian genetic principles, Professor George Harrison Shull of the Carnegie Institution of Washington developed the first hybrid corn in 1908. This was more than mere crossing: by generations of inbreeding he got pure strains which when mated yielded an almost explosive yield increase given the name of "hybrid vigor." But Shull's work was commercially valueless; the seed...