Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except for Seniors writing honors theses. At the end of the two years, the possibilities and value of the continuance of the tutorial system are destined to be reassessed. The uncertainty of the suspension period, however, poses a gloomy outlook for a tutorial system which is gasping its last breath in many departments of the University...
...Schaefer's cloud-poisoning act was the fruit of long, careful experiment. After much research, he learned how to turn the trick in miniature. First he cooled the air in a laboratory cold chamber (rather like a deep-freeze cabinet) to about 5° below zero, Fahrenheit. He breathed into the chamber and his breath condensed to fog. He made a magic pass with a single pellet of dry ice. The fog cleared, and glittering snowflakes drifted on to the chamber's floor. From this point it was easy to expand the process to full, outdoor scale...
...made to pay in postwar Italy. They remembered how many a U.S. newsman, stranded abroad after World War I, had spent carefree years working on the Paris edition of the New York Herald, and had never been the same since. Pooling their assets, the three G.I.s took a deep breath and plunged into business as the Rome Daily American...
...American's only English-language competition is the Paris Herald Tribune, which arrives with two-day-old news, and the British Army's stodgy Union Jack. To expatriate Americans the American is a daily breath of home, but to Italian readers, reared on Fascist journalism, it is sometimes baffling. Once it ran a letter from a U.S. reader suggesting that the Colosseum be razed and a children's play center put up in its place. Next day Italian tempers exploded in the press and radio. An American editor had to go on the air and explain that...
...right price, according to the Cahaly Brothers, was, is, and will be the OPA rate. While that government agency was gasping its dying breath this summer, the shop contained a huge sign proclaiming: "OPA Regulations are still observed in this store--Cahaly." Now, even as Paul porter cleans out his Washington desk and prepares to transfer the bureau to the textbooks, the sign still remains amid the crepe-paper decor of a dusty window display...