Word: boils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truth." But, said Burdick, "Times have changed since Waugh was here. The Oxford homosexual today has neither wittiness nor creative eccentricity to recommend him . . Parties revolve around gin and orange which is, beyond question, one of the most barbaric drinks that any people ever accepted voluntarily. Things boil along to the accompaniment of some old Louis Armstrong records and a lot of very uninformed talk about jazz...
...schism has been long coming," Train said. "Many of us felt that the Lampon has been catering to the 'lower class' element in the College, and the issue came to a boil when the editors declined to publish a though provoking profile of Shirley May France...
...other than their own as, say, a Brooklyn-bred novelist would be of showing how a tree grows in Independence, Mo. But the novels of Henry Green, which are still little known in Britain and almost unheard of in the U.S., bubble like a social melting pot that can boil down everything from cutaways to galluses. Nor is any one of them much like its fellows, because both Henry Yorke and pseudonymous Henry Green love to court new experiences and make fresh experiments. Since his proletarian years, Henry Yorke has graduated into big business: he is now managing director...
...time smoke began to boil out of the rocket's top, nearly everyone had retreated to the blockhouse. "It is now X minus 20 minutes," warned the operations officer, Lieut. Commander W. Patrick Murphy, over the loudspeaker. "Silence in the blockhouse. No smoking...
...National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, declared that false rumors about polio can do more harm than the disease itself. Dr. Weaver stressed the positive gains made in polio research (on which the Foundation has spent almost $11 million, will spend $2,000,000 this year). In fact, these boil down to the knowledge that there are at least three types of polio virus (and possibly several strains of each type), and that the virus is usually transmitted by some sort of contact with other infected persons-most often in the home...