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...flower pot or jar, they can be raised the year round from dried field soybeans, sprout in five days or less, can be cooked as quickly as a pork chop, have several times as much vitamin B complex as the bean itself, rival tomatoes in vitamin C. A crisp, tasty dish, they have been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries...
Onetime newsreel cameraman-Larry O'Reilly, first U.S. studio photographer to cover the Highway, brought home and boiled down some 30,000 ft. of scoop. His honest excitement both on location and in the cutting room give the film its crisp, uncommon energy. Most notable is O'Reilly's success in depicting two essential opposites simultaneously: 1) the obstinate, difficult bucking of tremendous obstacles (mud, wilderness, green crews who had to be trained on the spot); 2) continuous, violent, swift movement northwards (with the camera leaping from planes to trucks to trains to boats to bulldozers...
...have the cutes raccoon coat, and a cunning little hip flash knocking around somewhere in the back of my closet, and I'm just itching for an excuse to use them. What are we waiting for, start those presses rolling, start those footballs floating through the crisp autumn air. "Get the boys out of the labs by Thanksgiving!" And what we'll do to these pale blue touch-football players is nobody's business...
Rebirth at South Hadley. With Desjardins dead and his abbey reported restored to the Cistercian monks (who had sold it in the early 1900s), Mount Holyoke's crisp, French-fluent Professor Helen Elizabeth Patch last year suggested that her old Sorbonne master, Gustave Cohen, and fellow refugees of New York's Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes might enjoy some summer days at her college...
Small, slightly built, grey-haired, with thin drooping cheeks, Baillie has a somewhat weary air, resembles an undersized, underfed St. Bernard dog. But as soon as he speaks in his crisp, incisive Highland voice, the listener is aware that he is a man of unassuming but confident mental powers. His fame, as the Duke said in his tribute, stems from his four-fold talents as "scholar, teacher, preacher and author." (Best-known books: Invitation to Pilgrimage; And the Life Everlasting...