Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less evident to a nonexpert eye is a difference that will save taxpayers many a dollar. Until recently, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing printed all U.S. currency on flat-bed presses, using moistened paper, a process that took 15 days. Last week's new singles were printed on dry paper on British-made Rotary presses. The new three-day process will substantially trim the wet-printing cost of 1? a bill, and since the bureau makes a lot of money (1,641,488,000 pieces of paper currency in fiscal 1957), the yearly savings will...
There was no free room or even bed at the clinic, but a bed was improvised in a room already occupied by a cretinous dwarf. While his family was out at lunch, the patient suffered a hemorrhage. He could not call out, but the friendly dwarf noticed his condition and rushed for help. After desperate efforts, the bleeding was stanched. Thus, writes Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones, a hitherto unhonored and still unnamed dwarf probably saved the life of Sigmund Freud...
...play proceeds, an actress friend of his wife's comes to stay in the house, lashes back at him, and rouses the put-upon pregnant wife to give him the gate. But after the wife leaves Jimmy's bed and ironing board, her friend suddenly takes over both. At the end, despite her being wild about the brute, the friend clears out from a sense of guilt, while the wife, who has had a miscarriage, pleads with him to take her back...
...Killed Dylan? The first to shrink visibly in Caitlin's earth-mothering embrace is Dylan himself: "Dylan used to read to me in bed, in our first, know-nothing, lamb-sappy days; to be more exact, Dylan may have been a skinny, springy lambkin, but I was more like its buxom mother then, and distinctly recollect carrying him across streams under one arm; till the roles were reversed and he blew out and I caved in." Exactly why Dylan "blew out" is a question that has fueled his funeral pyre for the last four years. The argument ranges from...
...Hasty Pudding Institute of 1776 agreed yesterday to put its facilities at the disposal of the University Health Services. The first floor main hall of the Pudding building will be converted into a third Asian Flu infirmary center when Stillman and the 47-bed Freshmen Union infirmary have been filled...