Word: displayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...device on display at the Linden, N.J., laboratory of Esso Research & Engineering Co. looked like nothing more than an outsize storage battery draped with a tangle of plastic tubes.Like a battery, it was an entirely self-contained source of electricity, but it was far more than that. Esso's new fuel cell comes remarkably close to the achievement of a chemical engineer's dream: the use of a cheap fuel to pro duce practical amounts of electric cur rent without the aid of expensive engines or generators...
...quintet of would-be dramatists, Wilson and Gagliano show the most skill at playwriting, while the rest more often play at writing. All of them display the defect of dramatic inbreeding, attending plays instead of observing life. They share the avant-garde's peculiar complacency of despair. They seem to have acquired pain without suffering, ideas without thinking. As weather prophets of some endless bone-chilling night, they need to remind themselves that the sun also rises...
Accordingly, rollers have rolled out from bathroom cabinets and dressing-table drawers. Impossible to conceal, gaudy in color, they make a display of what was once an embarrassment. Increasingly, these Saturdays, the odd woman in almost any suburban shopping center is the one without rollers. Rollered women tread libraries and museums, department stores and movie theaters, put their rollered heads together over a bridge table, even go to confession rollered...
Although candidates' platforms have traditionally been posted in the Radcliffe library display case, this year they were put up only in Agassix, where fewer Cliffies were likely to see them, Miss Rossiter charged...
...sing, a kind of vocal decathlon that requires a range and stylistic flexibility that few if any modern-day singers would or could tackle-that is, until Horne and Sutherland came along. But both their husbands decided that not even Rossini's musical scrollwork was adequate to display the full virtuosity of their two stars. Sutherland's husband Richard Bonynge, who conducted the Boston production, and Horne's spouse Henry Lewis, who as associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic is the leading Negro conductor in the U.S., put their heads together to compose some additional vocal...