Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would present her in midsummer with her first great-grandchild. In an eventful week, the former First Lady did some reminiscing about how much her late husband had enjoyed movies. But, she recalled, he fell asleep during Gone With the Wind and was quite angry on waking up to find that the picture was still running. Grumbled F.D.R.: "No movie has a right to be that long...
Nantucket has always been a pretty good place to find sea shells; up to 1945 professional scientists had counted 46 different species of Mollusca on the island and in its waters. That was about the time Dwight Taylor of Pasadena, now a bright-eyed, serious 17-year-old, began his collection. Dwight kept picking up sea shells until he had picked up 120 species of them, and enough mollusk lore to write a dozen-page scientific treatise: "A Malacological Survey of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts...
That Tired Feeling. Maya's famed Internist Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez gave the doctors some unconventional advice: "Often what you find in a patient has nothing to do with the case." In trying to explain why a patient has "that old tired feelin','' he said, the doctor might turn up some soft gallstones, a slightly low basal metabolism rate or a few intestinal parasites. But the doctor should remember that things like that cannot cause the great fatigue the patient complains about. The commonest cause of abnormal weariness, he said, is a "nervous breakdown," a term...
...plans to sell: a $1,000 spinet; two Harley-Davidson motorcycles; a $1,500 silver service; a $250 brass fireplace set; a $500 pair of hand-tooled cowboy boots; two pedigreed great Dane puppies ("I do hope we can find them a good home in the country"); a year's supply of dog food...
Barty Fingal, a stringy bit of town scum, and his pal Pelancey, a handsome but dim-witted giant, find a compromising letter in a jacket sent to Pelancey's dry-cleaning shop. They decide to blackmail the man who wrote it, and their scheme is so successful that the poor fellow commits suicide...