Word: enfolded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heading in to town via Tremont street, unlimited vistas of amusement enfold before the evening stroller. The Beacon Hill Theater, for instance, is featuring Sir Codic Hardwicke in Nicholas Nickleby and Deborah Kerr in Black Narcissus, an all-British twin bill. A turn to the left will put you on Washington Street, Boston's Broadway and home of the bigge movies. They include...
...Kindly Light, with love enfold...
...brain of 60 or 70 years "is characterized by an amazing reduction in mass." It shrinks from its skull casing like a dry sponge in a wooden box. The membranes which enfold it, in youth tough as Cellophane, grow delicate as tissue paper. Often they are patterned with small plaques of bone. Brain convolutions shrivel, the valleys growing wider than the hills. Strangely enough, said Dr. Kennedy, only the cerebral cortex, seat of intelligence, grows wrinkled and old. Other more primitive brain structures remain "almost normal." The cells of the cortex, usually some 14 billion, "are reduced in number . . . many...