Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...third game of the series Richardson hit a grand-slam home run to lead his team to a 10-0 victory and in the sixth, belted two towering triples as the Yankees won, 12-0. Richardson's final total of twelve runs batted in set a World...
...Unimpressive all season and steadily slipping in national ranking, Syracuse finally showed some of last year's championship style, came to life in the second half to salvage its unbeaten record and set back a stubborn Penn State team...
When 19-year-old Ida Rosenthal set up a dress business in New Jersey in 1906, less than a year after emigrating from Minsk, the brassiere had a very different function than it has now. After Society Girl Caresse Crosby designed a brassiere in 1913 (it took its name from the French word for a child's undershirt), it was worn as a sort of chest-height cummerbund to flatten and camouflage women for the boyish look. When Mrs. Rosenthal moved into New York and set up a dress shop with a woman partner in 1922, she noticed that...
After having set the U.S. high school world aflutter last year with his well-reasoned criticisms, former Harvard President James B. Conant last week took on Education in the Junior High School Years (Educational Testing Service; 50?). Addressed to school boards, Conant's new study is a "purposely conservative" pamphlet of 46 pages-the work of a critic who spurs progress by shunning polemics...
...Praise Famous Men, by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. Since it was written in 1936, this prose account of sharecroppers' lives, set down with the dark rage of a poet, has become a classic...