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...vintners of the Palatinate sought (as they do every year) a name to distinguish the 1947 vintage. What to call this year of hunger, hate, uncertainty, and growing fear? The vintners discarded Kalorienspritzer (calory splasher) and Zonenschleicher (zonal sneaker). They chose Knochenrappler, which means "rattler of bones." The children of Germany knew well what the vintners meant; thousands of German kids, searching for food, rattled bones in garbage cans. If they found an egg, however stale, it was precious. And if the egg could be cooked in an old war helmet (see cut), that was a symbol of the menacing...
...feel they are entitled at least to a special row somewhere near the front of the room and think the "ideal solution would be to include Radcliffe in the alphabetical plan." To those who think this would complicate attendance-taking, they point out "that it is quite simple to distinguish between a Radcliffe and a Harvard student...
Ancient Way. When living alone, the cells are amoebae, and impossible to distinguish from other amoebae which have never learned to cooperate. They crawl slowly at random, grazing on bacteria. When one grows large, it divides in two by the cheerless, asexual mode of multiplication for which amoebae are famous. This is the ancient way of life, before cooperation...
Just after dawn, the lights which flooded the white marble building on Constitution Avenue flicked off. A few minutes later the armed sentries patrolling the terraced grounds were relieved. By the time the first visitors began arriving, there was little but its name to distinguish the building from scores of other Government offices. Above the entrance were the words: "United States Public Health Service...
IHOFA exhibits all the essentials of the standard Hollywood production line model--boy, girl, and rocky road to romance, satisfactorily traversed. But a well turned plot and some fine acting by Victor Moore distinguish it from the run of the mill and transform it into entertainment that will please even the cinematic gourmet...