Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...been gassing for years about old John Alcock. Oldsters could still recall the day in 1902 when John, then 62, walked backwards the whole twelve miles from Macclesfield to Buxton, and turned the trick in 3 hr. 14½ min. Last week a relative newcomer named Russell Wright, 46, set out to better old John's time over the same course...
...paper, at least, the control of the Journal is not in Grant's hands, but in those of his fanatically loyal and well-paid employees. Shortly after he bought the paper, he set up a plan through which employees could buy stock. They now own 55% of it,* all that is available under the plan. "If they don't like me," says Grant, "they can fire me." But since most of the employees sign over their voting rights as a matter of course, he slyly adds: "I, of course, control 96, 97, 98% of the proxies...
...wanted to study the guitar rather than the piano or violin, they sniffed. The guitar was an instrument for gypsies, not for a young man who had ambitions to be a musician. Besides, no one at the conservatory knew enough about the guitar to teach it. Teenager Segovia stubbornly set out to teach himself...
...behind King Khephren's head, the portrait shows none of the symbolic attributes of royalty. "And yet," Drioton says, "such is the majesty emanating from this statue of an almost naked man that it is impossible . . . not to feel ourselves in the presence of a king." Such works set a style that outlasted the pharaohs themselves...
Near Smile. About 1000 B.C., court artists tried to set the clock back to old King Khephren's time. The new sculptures went back only part way. "They never indeed recaptured the old robust vigor and naturalness," Drioton says. They had "a softness, almost a smile, which links them with the archaic Greek sculpture whose contemporaries they were." A seated scribe looking for all the world like a modern businessman on a holiday at the beach was one of the period's best products...