Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to. I've done it a thousand times." Why is he wearing a white suit? "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." Wielding the satiric pinpoint that is sometimes more deadly than the sword, Twain proceeds to let the hot air out of do-gooders, religious humbugs and assorted hokum peddlers. To vary the pace, there are tall tales, a ghost story, an acted-out fragment from Huckleberry Finn. The humorist even prophesies his own death with the return of Halley's comet (1910): "The Almighty has said, no doubt...
...When gangrene threatens the Japanese, the American pours his only packet of sulfa powder into the ugly leg wound. The pair learn each other's names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore, but he does capture the pathos of his homesickness...
...special handling of incubator cases, said Dr. Dennis, especially in regulating the oxygen supply, now that it is known that an excess of oxygen can cause blindness (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). Even with the best of care, many preemies begin to suffocate because a membrane blocks the lungs' air sacs: nobody knows why half of such cases get better and show no ill effects, while the other half die. Bile pigment, which the immature liver cannot handle, may pile up in the blood and cause brain damage. Best way to treat it, Dr. Dennis said, is to replace...
...than the dragonfly for which it was named. Last week De Bernardi heard that a group of aviation experts had collected at a Roman airport to watch some German pilots demonstrate a new light plane. Hopping on his motor scooter, he zipped out to the field, took to the air in his Dragonfly, stunted breathtakingly for 15 minutes. "You can't beat him," said an onlooking friend. "He's got the heart of a 20-year-old." But in the air Mario de Bernardi was feeling the attack that killed him. Settling the Dragonfly to a soft landing...
Famous or Notorious. By 1909 Wright was 40, and at the peak of his career. His Larkin Building in Buffalo had pioneered air conditioning, introduced the first metal-bound plate-glass doors, the first all-steel office furniture; with Unity Church in Oak Park, he had invented a whole vocabulary of cubist forms to express a new building material, poured concrete. Publication of his works in Europe created a sensation...