Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barnes spoke before a meeting of 100 graduate students who gathered in Burr Hall to receive instructions about applying for the one-year grants...
...Chicago, Kukla, Fran & Ollie found a new home on the ABC network. A standard NBC item since 1948, the gentle Burr Tillstrom show originally ran for half an hour, five times a week. Then it was cut to 15 minutes, and finally, limited to 30 minutes once a week. With a new sponsor (Gordon Baking Co.), the Kuklapolitan players will go back to their five-day-a-week format...
There is, of course, a gory good finish, with Stewart standing off the murderer (Raymond Burr) with a barrage of popping flashbulbs, and somebody remarking that an important piece of evidence can be found in a hatbox. But the best of it is the moment in which Hitchcock dares to break his climax wide open to get a laugh -and gets away with it. When the New York cops run to the rescue, the film, just for an instant, runs in fast motion, producing a constabular celerity that has not been observed since the days of the Keystone Kops...
...Manhattan last week, Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery announced a new, virtually painless dental drill, the Cavitron. Designed to replace the nerve-wracking metal burr, the pencil-shaped Cavitron is quieter and quicker...
...claim that the budget will not stand an extra strain. Or, if he favors a new plan, he will try to scrape up the money somehow. While Provost Buck was urging the Bender Plan on the Faculty, he was also arranging for $1,000,000 from the Allston Burr bequest to finance the program. It was hard for even the most dubious to argue against a profferred million dollars...