Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No Lion. This biography by Syracuse University Professor Terhune is the best documented life to date of Victorian England's least-documented poet. "Fitz," a lifelong friend of Carlyle, Thackeray and Tennyson, came of a rich and ancient family, was able to shape his life about as he wished...
Whether "The Angel and the Badman" is the signal of a long awaited intellectual renaissance among western producers or whether it will he pigeon-holed as a noble experiment, the block long queues at the Paramount and Fenway are an accurate indication of public taste and appreciation.
With the March issue, "Radditudes" has become a magazine. It used to seem more like an experiment: readers weren't so interested in getting forty-five cents worth of reading enjoyment as they were in backing a good thing, in giving what was an embryonic collection of writings a chance...
Amiable Arthur Greenwood, Labor's deputy leader, rose to defend the guillotine as "a new experiment resting on the authority of this House." Pink-cheeked Tory Quintin Hogg, looking like a bad-tempered baby, cried out: "Call it the Reichstag and be done with it." Greenwood thrust back: "I...
Gangrene results from blood clots blocking circulation. Dr. Wirtschafter, taking his cue from a colleague's experiment, had first tried attacking gangrene with intravenous injections of ether. It seemed to work in some cases. Why? Probably because ether makes the blood vessels sensitive to histamine, a body chemical which...