Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repaid Cotton for the option, but it was still necessary for Cotton to take final title to the hotel. As far as the public record is concerned, Cotton still holds the title, although he says he has filed with Goldfine a letter stating that he was Goldfine's agent in buying the hotel and would turn the property over to Goldfine or to Lebandale Mills whenever desired. Fifteen years later, the transfer has still not been desired...
...Even if an espionage agent walked in and asked for a passport, we'd have to issue it," said a State Department passport official after the Supreme Court held (TIME, June 30) that the Secretary of State has no statutory authority to deny passports on the basis of "beliefs" or "associations." Warning of just that kind of urgency, President Eisenhower last week sent a message to Congress requesting "clear statutory authority" for the Secretary to deny passports in the interest of national security. "Each day and week that passes without [this legislation] exposes us to great danger." And Secretary...
...well as most other commercial music, last week lost control of film scoring to an upstart splinter group headed by a studio trumpet player. In an election sponsored by the National Labor Relations Board. Hollywood's film musicians chose the rebel Musicians Guild of America as their bargaining agent, by a vote...
...center as the fulcrum and focus of the action, and perhaps in the larger sense the symbol of Woman as the base of stability in the family, her husband Willy at one end of the lever, and Biff, her oldest son, at the other end. She is the agent whereby the audience gains emotional entrance to the dramatic situation. Her sanity and sense of life amid the tragedy give a sense of reality to the maelstrom about her. Olive Dunbar gives a distinguished performance in this role. She exhibits superb control and dramatic sense...
...manned a demonstration booth to show general practitioners how easily they can now do just this in their own offices-with gadgets that look like babies' croup kettles. They generate a "superheated Aerosol," a mist containing minute droplets of 15% salt solution and 20% propylene glycol (a wetting agent) at 125° F. The patient inhales this hot fog for half an hour. The salt solution draws out fluid from bronchial cells and from the myriad tiny air-exchange cells (alveoli) in his lungs. The wetting agent helps bring out more fluid that contains cells. The patient coughs this...