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...brought into the act, Getting Married frequently seems mechanical, clumsy, tired. Surely, for instance, nobody in the entire Shavian gallery is less gracefully created than General Boxer Bridgenorth, who smokes a pipe for a running gag, points out frequently that he is "Only a silly soldier man," and says "Dash my buttons" at intervals (sometimes, a glance at the text informs me, with one exclamation point; sometimes with two). The play is all done by formula, and yet at the same time it is formless...
Johnson was superb. On the first day, he ran the loo-meter dash in 10.6 sec., broad-jumped 24 ft. 9¼ in., put the shot 52 ft., high-jumped 5 ft. 10 in., and ran the 400 meters in 48.6 sec. Next day. he returned to spring the no-meter high hurdles in 14.5 sec., hurl the discus 170 ft. 6½ in. (almost 10 ft. farther than he had ever thrown it before), pole-vault 13 ft. ¼ in., throw the javelin 233 ft. 3 in. and run 1,500 meters in 5 min. 9.9 sec. Yet even...
...dash and space. The scientists' dearest wish is to break the code in order to find what sequence of bases leads to a given genetic result, such as red hair in humans. Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
SPORTS-COUPE CORVAIR called the Monza-900 (named after Italian race track) will go into 1,000-per-month production in May, have bucket seats and fancier dash-and-panel trim, but keep standard Corvair 80-h.p. rear engine. Price...
...thank-you-ma'am to Webster's English, draws a lot of its vigor and flavor from Gullah, an African slave dialect still spoken by the white and Negro populations of the rice islands along the South Atlantic littoral, adds a touch of Huguenot French and a dash of regional accent that is as deep-rooted and mysterious as the brooding cypresses. Confronted with Charlestonese, philologists tremble...