Word: cial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Britain's Lord Chamberlain Roger Lumley, Earl of Scarbrough, offi cial censor of public stage plays, slapped a ban on Playwright Miller's latest one-acter, A View from the Bridge. "The play has a theme of incestuous love," ex plained Miller ruefully. "That got by all right, but the censor objected to a scene" in which two men embrace one another." ¶ Wife Marilyn was getting mixed no tices. From her old (69) acquaintance, Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, with whom La Monroe sipped gin and grapefruit juice, came a highbrow huzza: "She's quite remarkable...
...most prosperous year in U.S. history, some 3,500,000 families found themselves in serious finan cial straits. The cause was the high cost of sickness, which for those American families ran between 20% and more than 100% of their annual income. For industry, sickness is also costly. Some 500 million man-days are lost each year because of injuries and illnesses. The total loss in wages: $9 billion...
Showing movies of successful shots before games may help a basketball team's moting percentage, according to a paper written by varsity forward Bob Bramhall. First winter Bramhall conducted an experiment with the Crimson team for his cial Relations 148 course by showing pictures of successful shots just before the had went out on the floor to play...