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Captain Kent begins dropping his ethical ballast well before he reaches combat. The first value to go is fidelity. Kent loves the wife he left in England and has told himself he will be faithful to her. But the night comes when, sodden with gin and boredom, he seduces a Eurasian girl, mistaking her gasps of pain for pleasure. Afterwards, he loathes himself and the girl...
...luminance of approximately 1 candle/cm 2, whereas a frosted bulb has a luminance of about 5 c/cm 2. To use a favorite American expression, doctors recommend that the eyes should not be subjected to a luminance of more than 2 c/cm. 2. 3) do not hum unless the ballast is defective. 4) do not flicker. But even if fluorescent lights had all those defects, I do not see how they could possibly make anyone wear bifocals. A certain number of students who can be seen from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. in Lamont Library apparently agree with me. Jacques Paryske...
...Congressmen watched the heavy ore boat traffic through Sault Ste. Marie. Then they cruised on the Canadian icebreaker Ernest Lapointe through part of the 120-mile bottleneck preventing similar navigation past the St. Lawrence rapids below Ogdensburg, N.Y. Even with fuel and ballast reduced to cut her draft, the Ernest Lapointe could barely squeeze through the antiquated existing locks. The Congressmen also noted that even now the river is busy with small boat commerce-evidence of potential Canadian profits if Ottawa carries out its threat to build the seaway alone. At Barnhart Island (once a rum-runners' hideaway), they...
Some competent British players give ballast to the supporting cast, and Actor Welles proves surprisingly convincing as the tough Mongol general. Yet, with all the equipment for a spectacle, the film is likely to leave moviegoers feeling cheated -and nursing a healthy new respect for Cecil B. DeMille...
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