Word: past
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shepard last night thought he might start Captain Bill Prior at center in place of Ed Smith. Smith's shooting eye has been off in the past few games and he fell to a season's low of three points against Princeton...
...large, he and his staff thought the Lamont experiment has fulfilled President Conant's statement of a year ago that the open stack system was "a long step forward and a good step backward to a simple past . . . when college libraries were easy of access...
...production; yet he also was quite clear in confessing regrets. He succeeded in analyzing the dynamics of the free enterprise system far beyond the understanding of most in his age, but he honestly faced the possibility that capitalism with all its fond folk lore was a thing of the past. When he found himself in opposition he expressed it as an individual, and he never took personal refuge in a theoretical labyrinth. Harvard and the world is a poorer place for his passing...
...flying-saucer yarn was much too good to die young. Last week the U.S. was abuzz again with rumors about mysterious aircraft flitting around the sky. Latest rumor, presented as truth by the current issue of True magazine: "For the past 175 years the planet Earth has been under systematic close-range examination by living, intelligent observers from another planet." True's article set out to prove that the flying saucers carried interplanetary scouts who may have studied the earth's customs...
Through a Microscope. For the past few weeks the emotion of these hard-headed showmen has been echoing all up & down the big middle aisle of show business, proclaiming the ascension of a star named Carol Channing. On Broadway, an authentic new star is almost as rare a phenomenon as it is in the heavens. Perhaps once in a decade a nova explodes above the Great White Way with enough brilliance to reillumine the whole gaudy legend of show business. In 1938 an impish little brunette named Mary Martin took New York by storm one night when she sang...