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Saturdays open up larger vistas: you can follow Paul Revere's routh around Concord and Lexington, with a side trip to the "rude bridge that arched the food." Or you can drop in on the domain of Henry D. Thoreau, 1837, at Walden Pond and stay for a drip. Or, two bucks will get you a Youth Hostel Card that will make a weekend trip to Gloucester or the Cape a cinch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bicycles Provide Inexperience Way To View Environs | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

...majors, for all their fame as fresh-air lovers, spend an appalling amount of time in dank laboratories. Here they rub pebbles on porcelain streak plates, peer at crystals through dime-sized hand lenses, and drip hydrochloric acid on helpless limestones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geology | 4/21/1951 | See Source »

...Helpfuls," e.g., "Is drip coffee stronger if you pour the water through twice?" (No, weaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Indians, Snakes & Noah | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...singing robes as casually over his street clothes as a judge does his bench gown. There is a saving exuberance and sense of fun about the worst of The Lady, as there is a soaring ease about the best of it. After the naturalistic theater's monotonous verbal drip-drip into a bucket, The Lady's Not for Burning makes a fine bright careless splash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 20, 1950 | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...majors, for all their fame as fresh-air lovers, spend a terrifying amount of time in dank laboratories. Here they rub pebbles on porcelain streak plates, poor at crystals through dime-sized hand lenses, and drip hydrochloric acid on unsuspecting limestones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geology | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

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