j-archive-5016-D-2006-06-05

"PRIME"D FOR SUCCESS

200

'Typically, TV ad costs are highest during these hours'

prime time

400

'(Kelly of the Clue Crew fingers a familiar longitudinal on a globe.) It passes through Gao, Mali; Argentan, France; &, of course, Greenwich, England'

the prime meridian

600

'The lowest level of interest on loans from a bank'

the prime rate

800

'In Aristotelian philosophy, it's the godlike source of all activity in the history of the universe'

the prime mover

1000

'From the Latin for "first age", this adjective applies to things ancient or original, like a poetic forest'

primeval

THOSE ARE THE RULES

200

'This West Point grad wrote up the authoritative parliamentary rules of order'

(Henry Martin) Robert

400

'St. Benedict's Rule defines "4 kinds of" these: those under an abbot; hermits; & 2 detestable types'

monks

600

'Chemist Gilbert Lewis' octet rule says that the covalent type of these are formed until atoms have 8 valence electrons'

bonds

800

'The Coast Guard's navigation rules are also called these, which sound more applicable to car traffic'

the rules of the road

1000

'"Rules of" this tell soldiers when to fight; there's no diamond ring involved'

engagement

POSSESSIVE LIT

200

'1852:
A saintly slave saves a little girl's life & is later beaten to death'

Uncle Tom\'s Cabin

400

'1726:
A doctor meets strange new races in a satirical 4-part travelogue'

Gulliver\'s Travels

600

'1952:
On a farm in Maine, 2 animals with a total of 12 legs strike up an unusual friendship'

Charlotte\'s Web

800

'1913:
In the first part of "Remembrance of Things Past", the narrator thinks of family friend Swann'

Swann\'s Way

1000

'1857:
Besting a bully is part of a young boy's life at a British boarding school'

Tom Brown\'s School Days

CITY OF THE DAY: MILWAUKEE

200

'Milwaukee is located at the confluence of the Milwaukee & Menominee Rivers where they flow into this lake'

Lake Michigan

400

'Call 414-931-BEER to arrange a tour of this company's facility'

Miller

600

'The high culture of a 19th century immigrant group got Milwaukee the nickname "Deutsche Athen", meaning this'

the German Athens

800

'Born in Milwaukee, 1924; Chief Justice of the United States, 1986; passed away, 2005'

Rehnquist

1000

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Milwaukee skyline at Veterans' Park.) When Milwaukee's Emil Seidel was elected in 1910, he became to the first mayor of this political party so honored'

the Socialist Party

LOST ART

200

'His marble "David" would be hard to lose, but his smaller bronze "David" has been missing since the 18th century'

Michelangelo

400

'One of Holbein's most ambitious depictions of this king was lost in a 1698 Whitehall Palace fire'

Henry VIII

600

'In 1577, one year after he died, his mighty "Battle of Cadore" was lost in a fire at the doge's palace'

Titian

800

'Leutze's first version of "Washington" doing this was destroyed in a 1942 bombing of Bremen'

crossing the Delaware

1000

'David's long-gone "Lepeletier on his Deathbed" once hung opposite this other morbid David work of 1793'

The Death of Marat