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...medium of printed journalism. As he sees it, people are so absorbed with old-fashioned words that they don't even notice the tidal wave of change about to engulf them. To help them "survive," he says, he is putting out a monthly newsletter called The McLuhan Dew-Line. It is intended to "raise a mighty scream" to warn readers of the imminent electronics takeover...
Martha Peterson, L.H.D., president of Barnard College. Out of Kansas she came, fresh as the morning dew, tall as the corn in stature, and in her thinking as wide as the plain. Into the maelstrom of Morningside Heights steps the strong and kind Miss Peterson . . . wise and understanding friend of students...
Saturday morning on Seventh Street was ugly. The sun rose coldly on blocks of burned out buildings, piles of cement-encrusted bricks, charred wood reaching silently into the air. And all over there was a horrible coat of sweat--the dew of the morning and the hosing-down of the night. Smoke hung quietly in the air; the yellow-brown tear gas was still there...
Carbon tetrachloride (CC14) is one of the simplest of chemicals and one of the most potent. It is a great fire extinguisher, a powerful pesticide, will dry off dew-shorted spark plugs, and is such a versatile solvent that it will vaporize the grease stains out of a dress or tar from the rug in no time...
...marriage to the late pianist Jacques S. Danielson. Bedeviled by her disapproving parents, the couple were wed in secret in 1915, maintained separate apartments, and for years stole off for rendezvous like illicit lovers. When the story finally got out, Fannie explained, "You see, we're keeping the dew on the rose...