Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge businessmen feel that Lever Brothers' decision was a move not to escape from Cambridge but simply to get to New York where the firm can gather all of its offices under one roof and keep close watch over its Manhattan advertising agencies. The Chamber of Commerce can supply several convincing arguments that Cambridge's industrial position is still strong...
...which was one of the hits of his Paris show. As stiffly posed as a daguerreotype, the painting echoed Léger's early days as a retoucher as well as the paintings of the granddaddy of Paris primitives, Le Douanier Rousseau. Les Loisirs came as close to nature as anything Léger had done for years; he even painted the sky blue instead of dark red as he had first intended. Even so, its handsomeness was like that of a glistening machine designed and put together by a master engineer...
...grey day at Jamaica last week, Jockey Gordon Glisson booted home his 249th winner of the year. No other U.S. jockey was close to him in the race to ride the most winners of 1949.* Half an hour later, while Glisson was trying for No. 250, he got in a jam on the far turn and his mount stumbled. He was pitched out of the saddle and lay still in the dirt until the ambulance arrived...
...this speed. He decided that if the particle were small enough, about 4 microns (.000156 in.) in diameter, the heat generated by its friction with the air would be carried away (by radiation and other effects) without heating the particle. The "critical size" that he calculated theoretically was close to the actual size of Landsberg's particles. This is strong evidence, said Whipple, that Landsberg's particles really came from space and passed through the atmosphere unscathed...
...made the traditional claim of the coach whose team had won a hard close game, that there were no stars, just a team. He praised downfield blocking, always a good sign of team play, and cited the fact that the last winning score came on fourth down, after a penalty had almost halted the drive...