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The experiment was referred to by Ibsen as "a chance to acquire a safeguard to your health while assisting in a test valuable to your country."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Volunteers Assist Doctor In Tests for New Tetanus Vaccine | 11/14/1951 | See Source »

Reynolds--a defensive halfback--and rookie linebacker Jeff Coolidge are examples of this aggressive inexperience, which apparently will be the Crimson's lot until the newcomers acquire game polish.

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Crusaders Defeat Crimson, 33 to 7 | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Anyone wishing to "acquire a bloody nose," remarked a British reviewer last year, need only go to Dublin or Belfast and spout a few well-chosen lines from Arland Ussher's The Face and Mind of Ireland. Ussher, an Irish philosopher and art critic, paid his people handsome compliments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: People of Destiny | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

That indifference is part of her charm. Marlene Dietrich, who, at 48, is still one of the greatest glamor girls of them all, has set down three prerequisites for glamor. The first is that a star must not try too hard to woo the public, for the public reacts in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Farmer's Daughter | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

In the current Scientific American, Dr. Walter describes his new, more sophisticated pets. One type is designed, as before, so that when it sees a light, it scurries toward it in search of electric food. In addition, it can also hear a whistle, but at first it does not react...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Paradise Lost | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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