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...surface was brought out by Ross Laboratories, Seattle. The unit sends out ultrasonic pulsations of 200,000 cycles per second, has a dial on which a neon light shows the depth of echoes bouncing off an object. Echoes from a fish are short and sharp, those off the bottom drawn-out. Price...
...Batsman Watson, slim and serious, stepped to the wicket. With chances of victory almost nil, England's practical aim was to stay at bat all day, thus pull out another draw. For 5 hrs. 45 min. Willie Watson stayed at his wicket, scored a drawn-out century (100 runs), finally left six fellow batsmen to "stonewall" (hit harmless, perfunctory grounders) for the game's final 40 minutes. At 6:30 p.m. the game was called-a draw-amidst lusty cheers...
Individual scenes are uncommonly taut, e.g., a drawn-out crisis in the dining room when Garfield insists that the family eat the turkey dinner he has bought, and Ford, driven to a rebellious gesture, seems ready to die before he will let them accept. But what trips He Ran All the Way well before it has run its length is a far-fetched romantic gimmick. It asks the moviegoer to believe that the girl, devoted to her parents and young brother (Bobby Hyatt), is lonely, frustrated and moonstruck enough to plan on running off with the criminal whom...
...delightful to read. There is a story by Oliver Allen '43, concerning a social climber's campaign to ease himself into the New York Harvard Club, which should appeal to members of that organization, if no one else. The rest of the prose works fall really flat, especially a drawn-out parody by Nathaniel Benchley '38 of the Etruscan equivalent of Boston's Watch and Ward Society. Even such greats as F. van Wyck Mason '24 and Robert E. Sherwood '18 are not up to what presumably is their best...
Even if successful negotiations are possible, they will undoubtedly be drawn-out. At best, all available U. N. troops will be tied down in Korea for months to come, further impeding Western European defense plans...