Word: put
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Hicks. This performance so impressed J. P. Morgan & Co. that the banking firm asked Avery to take over an ailing Montgomery Ward in 1931. Avery quickly put his rough brand of rugged individualism to work at Ward, in three years turned a $9,000,000 loss into a $9,000,000 profit. Avery's method was to cut costs, introduce higher-priced lines of merchandise for the mail-order chain, because "We no longer depend on hicks and yokels. We sell more than overalls and manure-proof shoes...
Lives of great men are far less sublime than Longfellow thought, and their letters often prove it. If Sigmund Freud had not put his genius into psychoanalysis, even his son Ernst would have seen small reason to assemble this bundle of his father's correspondence, some of it already mined by Ernest Jones in his famed biography of the Master. Freud's letters are not brilliant, witty, or especially intimate. But their truculent honesty makes for a paradoxical and amusingly human revelation. The dedicated psychologist of sex was no sophisticate, but a square...
After a 70 yard Crimson march sputtered on the Army 22, the West Pointers put the game virtually on ice as half-back Bill Clark raced 78 yards through the entire Harvard team to score. Several tacklers had good shots at him, but Clark shook them off with some brilliant broken field running...
Whatever the controversy over particulars, all are unanimous in their desire to produce another play. Since the advantage of their producing on a Harvard stage is mutual--only the most supercilious Harvard man would not have enjoyed Swanson's Alley--I put in my plug now for making this production a precedent for many more such cultural exchanges...
...Crimson relaxed, as Yovicsin put in virtually every sophomore on the squad. It may have been fun for the players, but the spectators couldn't have cared less, and left in droves...