Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Martin sat cross-legged on his bed and waited for the regular visit of his doctor. Panting a bit after the climb, Dr. Dennison Young, 36, greeted him with a cheery "How are you feeling?", nodded when the boy replied, "I'm pretty good, but my neck's still stiff." Once a month, to test Martin's heart, Dr. Young lugs a 30-lb. portable electrocardiograph up the stairs (the doctor grumbles good-naturedly that "they all seem to live at the very top or the very bottom...
...Good Bit More. Lewenthal, proprietor of the moneymaking Associated American Artists Galleries (Manhattan, Chicago, Beverly Hills), who has promoted the work of many a U.S. artist (e.g., Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton) on to Christmas cards, De Beers diamonds ads, etc., offered to buy the picture for 50,000 francs (about $400 at the time). But the canny patron was in no hurry; after the painting was authenticated as Van Gogh's, he upped his price to a good bit more. Lewenthal paid the price, but for "two years of agony" he could not get the picture...
...world owes its troubles to the "hypertrophy of the self-asserting drives with a corresponding decline of the self-transcending impulses." There were times, he holds, when man was more capable of being both self-assertive and self-transcending (in the Greek and Renaissance civilizations) and by being a bit of both he managed to be a more balanced, stable creature. But he is sure that today man is either overactive or over-passive-or a dissatisfied neurotic who plunges first one way, then the other...
...hand the Smoker is charged with pulling the Yard together; on the other the Committee says that freshmen aren't ready for "unity" or "orientation" or any other Smoker blessings until the spring term is well underway. By February freshmen are pretty well oriented anyway, and it's a bit late for the Smoker to do much good...
...first high tea Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria had served in years. Near the tea cozies, where U.S. newsmen juggled their cups a bit awkwardly, stood three new 1949-model Morris cars. Peppery Viscount Nuffield, Britain's biggest motormaker, had sent them over by the Queen Mary as an opening bid for the U.S. market and as an answer to an old antagonist...