Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skillfully contrived scheme to make money from a "non-profit" showing Shakespeare's Henry V with Sir Lawrence Olivier came to an abrupt stop yesterday. The pirated film was on its way back to New York...
...states have, admittedly, shown a certain willingness to integrate students at the university level. Some, such as Tennessee, have suggested tenative plans for integrating first at the graduate level, and then working down to the college and finally the school level, one grade more each year. But even this scheme, better than nothing, to be sure, does not face the realities of the situation...
...Nasser heyday, when shares reached $355 (in 1954), had the Canal Company inspired such excitement. Its stock was always the kind of security that Frenchmen, who own 45% of the shares, put away for old age; the British government, which originally called the project a "bubble scheme" for "gullible capitalists," later bought 44% of the shares for ?4,000,000, has netted a handsome 26%-a-year return on its original investment...
...only vaguely workable scheme the Administration has enacted this year is forcing students to have their autos in a private or University lot by November 19. If these lots were less expensive (private parking costs $50, the University's $30) and were nearer than the Business or Divinity Schools the plan might have been worthwhile. But as is, the Administration's policy is merely short-sighted, faint-hearted, and unfair...
...nightclub and bar. To be sure that his new toy was authentic, he used Polynesian architecture and decor (tiki gods. Hawaiian and Oriental furnishings, yards of tapa cloth, thousands of sea shells), had a Samoan Mormon colony thatch the bungalow roofs by hand. In the village's color scheme, he put heavy emphasis on coral pink. Said Kaiser: "Pink gives you a joyous feeling...