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...trying to imitate Ernest Hemingway with one hand and Philip Barry with both feet. The comedy is only laughable in spots-as when Nikki changing her slippers, explains why by saying: "On account of I can run faster in red shoes." Sophisticated audiences may be pleased to detect something unusual-a subtle and difficult theme -in the film but they will sympathize with other cinemaddicts who are likely to criticize it by laughing at the wrong places...
...Roman Catholic Church. . . . For many years it shone like the morning sun struggling to break through a lowered sky. But then the face began to harden. . . . The features stood out in grotesque distortion, the mouth very wide from shrieking anathemas, the nose long and sharp to detect heresies; and the skin was covered with the scabs of corruption...
...heavier, he used seawater, fluorite and other halogen compounds. He burned each of them and sent their complex light through a polariscope and then through a magnetic field. A magnet twists polarized light to a calculable extent. The fineness of this magneto-optic rotation is such that it can detect one part of a substance in 100 billion parts. The greatest amount of eka-iodine Dr. Allison could find in any of his substances was one part in one billion. Eka-iodine is the rarest, most fugitive thing on earth...
...first laboratory was so rickety that passing wagons made the measuring instruments rattle. Now Dr. Burgess has structures so solidly poised that an earth quake could not joggle a butterfly on a pendulum. He also has instruments sensitive enough to detect the streetcleaners' brushing a block away...
...Detector. By a new X-ray photographic method called amniography, Dr. Thomas Orville Menees of Blodgett Memorial Hospital, Grand Rapids, Mich., has been able to detect the sex of an unborn child three months before birth. An injection of harmless strontium iodide, opaque to X-rays, makes it possible to identify the structure of the unborn child. Another important use of amniography: to determine cases where a Caesarian section is necessary for safe delivery...