Word: makeshift
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...about 12:30 p. m. The sun was directly overhead "so that shadows played no part in the performance." In the middle of the compound four poles had been struck up to support a roof of branches. Subbayah traced a circle in water on the sands around this makeshift tent, forbade any man wearing leather shoes to step inside...
...return to the original point, we tend to lean toward the Music Department and their suspicions--and at any rate we should certainly shudder at the thought of several dozen tons of metal shimmying overhead in their makeshift moorings...
...this situation Harvard's new President James Bryant Conant organized some makeshift expedients. The Business School put in a special course to train men for such governmental business ventures as the TVA, such regulatory bodies as the SEC (TIME, Feb. 4). The government department and Law School devised special programs. What was needed, however, was a separate graduate school. Last week Harvard got one. The public-spirited donor, found after 30 years of search, was Lucius Nathan Littauer...
Regretting their impetuosity, the Cambridge brain battalion again re-entered, but so tardily that only a makeshift team could be formed; and, ignominy unutterable, the escutcheon of the Harvard Chess Club was blotched for the first time with a third place. der, for an experienced team...
Drawback to Chicago's present arrangement is the short (five-week) season which makes it impossible to maintain a creditable resident company. Makeshift is to pay for a few big names to bolster up a list of mediocres. For his trump cards this season Longone will present Lehmann in Der Rosenkavalier, Prague's Mila Kocava in her U. S. debut, pretty Helen Jepson as the profligate Thais, the U. S. premiere of Respighi's La Fiamma, the world premiere of Ethel Leginska's Gale with John Charles Thomas singing and the bushy-haired composer conducting...