Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White believes that ultrasonics has a brilliant future. Some possible uses: killing bacteria; breaking up suspensions of solid particles; precipitating smoke and dust; speeding up chemical reactions. The sound waves can also pull large molecules apart, turning heavy oils into gasoline. Last week, from Britain, came a report that the little waves may soon be used in laundering, to knock dirt from soap-starved British clothes...
Only once in his life, when he was 42 and seriously ill, have his lips touched hard liquor. The doctor pried his teeth apart and forced some brandy down his throat to stimulate his heart. Arthur immediately revived, sat up and spat. "If I had been a drinker," he now says, "the brandy would have had no effect on me. By never drinking, my life was saved by drinking...
...boozing, fought his brother in the street over a girl and ended up with 90 days on the road gang. Columbia Pictures, on complaint of British censors, had to reshoot a twin-bed scene between Franchot Tone and Lucille Ball-with the beds moved a decent twelve inches apart...
Pamela Kellino, actress-wife of Britain's romantic Cinemenace James Mason, arrived at a formula for a happy marriage: "The only possible way to make marriage work is to stay so close together that you couldn't possibly get apart...
...full scope of the emotions of the protagonist of the drama in these climactic moments. It gives a sense of the individuality and of stylistic coherence, but also has some measures which give a certain sense of reminiscence, while seldom of specific influences. One wondered whether, if heard apart from its choreography, it would sustain interest at a constant pitch--in the impression of a first hearing the use of the musical ideas is stronger than the ideas themselves--but then it should be considered primarily as an essential part of the dance drama as a whole...