Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bottom. Firemen stretched aerial ladders to the ship's sides, played hoses on people burning alive at the rails. One man climbed down, moaning "No, no, no, no!" He fought police who tried to lead him away from the pier, shouted: "I've got seven people on that ship!" Another had a grisly blob stuck to his hands: he had tried to beat out the flames in a woman's hair, had come away with part of her scalp...
...Bordeaux University, 70 prominent French doctors gathered last week to discuss the effects of wine on the human body. Inevitably, the conclusions were favorable to wine. The experts, calling themselves the "Doctor Friends of French Wines," banded together in the early 1930s to blow away a whiff of prohibition sentiment which wafted over France...
Soulima, 39 ("born between Firebird and Petrouchka"), lives with his wife Franchise and son Jean, 4, only a few bars and beats away from Igor in Hollywood. But he has not yet found much time to visit with the man he usually refers to as "my father," but sometimes as "Stravinsky." He has been too busy "living with Scarlatti" (he will record some sonatas for Allegro records this week) and preparing for his first U.S. piano concert tour. All summer, he taught piano six hours a day at the Music Academy of the West, in Santa Barbara...
...linotype got a renewed lease on life in Chicago last week, the Graphic Arts Research Foundation, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass, announced a new typesetting process that it hopefully predicted would make the linotype as obsolete as handset body type. The machine (suggested names: Lumitype, Anti-Type, Any-Type) does away with casting of type metal, "sets type" photoelectrically on film instead...
...them to offer. So did psychologists and physiologists. Even sociologists wanted to use the machines, though they did not quite know how to go about it. All the scientists agreed that the large-scale calculators would encourage them to tackle many problems from which they had been scared away by computation difficulties...