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...Yale University told how Mira Pavlovic, 28, a visiting research associate from Yugoslavia, performs the graft, operating on eggs that have been incubated for 33 to 40 hours. At this point the embryo is 0.2 in. long, and the blood system is so primitive that the organism does not bleed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Composite Chicks | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...University administration has got the whole world in its hand, and sometimes the squeeze is too much to bear. An affectionate clutch can become a stranglehold, and noble hearts often bleed for ignoble purposes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lead Kindly Light | 5/9/1958 | See Source »

...wasn't until later that evening, when the peddlers had gone home and the flags were put away, that they found him--Mansley Montebank (too much with the world) impaled on his own umbrella. It had been, of course, a decorous death; he was too much a gentleman to bleed all over his vest...

Author: By George Apley, | Title: Ulysses | 5/6/1958 | See Source »

...really become American Legion types, but they do greatly improve. We also know that the acting-out types tend to get fired from college, but we do not know what causes a person to be unable to ask for help. Most Harvard men are so articulate, that when they bleed, they bleed all over. The average Harvard neurotic seeks help from 25 or 30 sources...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: VOLUNTARY WITHDRAWALS: APPROVED BY UNIVERSITY, BENEFICIAL TO STUDENTS | 4/24/1958 | See Source »

...many of South Korea's poor, stealing from the U.S. Army is a trade and a livelihood. They steal from PXs and officers' homes, raid railroad yards, pilfer from trucks on the move, and diligently bleed oil pipelines (last year's losses were 1,500,000 gallons, enough to carry one tank company 22,400 miles). But after U.S. soldiers on guard duty, potshotting at intruders, killed several innocent bystanders, General George H. Decker ordered: "No more shooting." The thieving went on, the 40,000 men of South Korea's police force seemed unable or unwilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Slicky Boy | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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