Word: type
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...style of the '30's, and enables Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey to cruise around in fancy sports cars, is that Gloria Wandrous has no relation with the Missile Age. She and her generation died long ago. Perhaps it is just that the amateur prostitute has disappeared as a type form--or has become too common to be unusual...
Seisure of the land, Pusey said, would present a serious scientific loss. Although the land is not owned by Harvard a University operates experiments in special agriculture, horticulture, and botany there. Many of the experiments are of a long-range type which did not be easily replaced, he said. In condition, the station provides facilities of the study of marine plant life in Bay and of plant and animal of nearby mountains...
FAMILY-CAR MARKET will be invaded next year by International Harvester. It will spruce up its Travel-All combination station wagon-delivery truck into a stylish suburbanite station wagon, and will introduce a new Jeep-type, four-cylinder camping wagon...
Died. Fu Tak-iam, 67, who started as a Cantonese doughnut peddler and wound up as the gambling czar of Macao by matching yens for fantan, cricket fights (in which trained insects do battle unto death) and cusek-a type of roulette played with dice; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. A strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) brigand, Fu was ransomed in 1946 for $150,000 when captors sent a slice of his right ear to relatives, but seven years later stalled on paying ransom for his kidnaped son until the gang proved their seriousness by slicing...
...view of this effort in the course, I am at a loss to understand how your reporter could quote me as having characterized the Reading Class as a course in "examsmanship." The Examsman, pure type, is naturally free to derive what hints he can from our consideration of the writing of essays, but we imagine that the scheduling of the class at such unholy hours as 8 a.m. may discourage his too regular attendance. John W. Wideman