Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Beside many of the new buildings on his rolling campus, Uncle John placed neat white-and-green signs, announcing that the structure would cost taxpayers nothing; rents, cafeteria profits, ticket fees and similar profits would make them self-liquidating. "In eleven years," says Hannah happily, "we'll be entirely out of debt...
...study at M.S.C. Each year, some 100,000 people come from all over the state to take special short-term courses. They include insurance salesmen and pickle packers, fur breeders and cattlemen, farmers who come 40,000 strong for the annual Farmers' Week. For those who cannot make the trip, M.S.C. has other means of extending "service": lecturers, farm and home demonstrators, and assorted publications running to a million circulation a year...
...practice, Boston papers still carry Page One display ads, charge three to six times as much for them as for inside ads. The result is that much valuable news space below the fold is filled with ads. What space is left is largely wasted by oversized headlines, and a make-up as haphazard as if the type had been fired from a blunderbuss...
Gentle Dr.Albert Einstein has a learned complaint to make in the current Scientific American.* In language shrouded in darkling mathematics, he takes modern physicists to task for what he considers their lack of interest in the greatest problem still unsolved. "There exists a passion for comprehension," writes Dr. Einstein, "just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on." ¶Present-day physicists, Einstein believes, are so busy gathering facts about the innards of atoms that they have no time for the great, round, four-dimen sional...
Liebman accomplishes his production miracles by working with a veteran team, many of whom have followed him from summer theater to Broadway (The Straw Hat Revue, Tars and Spars, Make Mine Manhattan), "We're hep," he explains. "We simplify things by avoiding too many props and cutting down on un-essentials like sound effects. We lose very little time...