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Manless, always hoping that her husband will come back, Felicia plunges into plantation work and gradually she gives up all pretense at social life. When her son is killed by the arrow of a savage tribesman, nothing is left for Felicia but the daily round, the deepening identification with the island's character, a contemplation of past and present, tinged with a lonely woman's resentment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What an Old Lady Knows | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...year-old former Jesuit and his band of approximately fifty men, women, and children will soon take up residence in a large new dormitory in Harvard, Massachusetts. Their old home, both the red and white frame building facing Bow and Arrow Streets and the structures in back which form St. Benedict's Center, is up for sale...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: Father Feeney Quits Cambridge; St. Benedict's Center Up for Sale | 1/17/1958 | See Source »

...remainder of the year. W.R. Bowie, managing editor of the paper when F.D.R. was president, wrote in the 1904 Harvard Yearbook this description of a competition: "The task was heavy, the drain on the candidate's thought and time exhausting. The candidate was everywhere; he was 'the arrow that flieth by day, and the pestilence that walketh in darkness...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Harvard | 12/13/1957 | See Source »

...Boylston Street arrow signs lettered "Mrs. Star" pointed up a dank, steep flight of stairs to a beaver-board door. I knocked, and waited. After a time I knocked again. I was about to leave, when the door was opened by a small, broad, barefoot lady...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Mrs. Star | 11/8/1957 | See Source »

Poison to Relax. This done, Bovet switched to the mechanism by which curare paralyzes the muscles. It took him eight years to find the essential ingredients in the impure mixtures of Indian arrow poisons: along the way he synthesized 400 compounds which produced some of curare's effects in one degree or another. His research brought out the usefulness of succinylcholine. a long-neglected curare-like compound now widely employed as a muscle relaxant in major surgery on the chest and abdomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unknown Giant | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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