Word: boringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...care. But in an effort to turn honest document into honest-to-God drama, Playwright Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...
...wrote Dr. Spencer L. Rogers of California's San Diego State College last week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. From the study of 60 prehistoric Peruvian skulls which bore evidence of trephining, Dr. Rogers was able to tell a good deal about the nature and success of the primitive operation. The methods used in removing the bone included drilling, sawing, cutting and scraping. If the patient did not die immediately, new bone tended to grow back although in no case was the hole completely closed. From this evidence Dr. Rogers concluded: that 78% of the victims survived...
...Then with a series of heavy crashes, one following another as the Sutherland crossed her enemy's stern and each section of guns bore in turn, she fired her broadside into her . . . with every shot tearing its destructive course from end to end of the ship. .. . . That was the sort of broadside which won battles. That single discharge had probably knocked half the fight out of the Frenchmen, killing and wounding a hundred men or more, dismounting half a dozen guns." With little philosophizing about war and man's fate, Author Forester, competent and unpretentious, hurries his story...
...those he had not. He compared himself to the chief operator of a telephone switchboard who must accept responsibility for all the operators' "wrong numbers." He then went back to 1929, rehearsed as a confession the gist of his editorials publicly printed then. This seemed greatly to bore the judges. Russian quick-wits at once saw that Bukharin's "confession" of what he called last week the secret program of the conspirators was only a rehash of his public program of 1929, rejected then by Stalin, but amicably. "Our program," confessed the Heir of Lenin, "was greater freedom...
...Naples, Filomena Ducci bore twins, the second pair in 14 months, named them Vittorio and Bruno...