Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...museum restorer put it together again as best he could, but he had to leave out many of the blue chips-he just couldn't find a way to fit them in. Recently 30 of the surplus chips, carefully saved all these years, turned up in a private collection. They gave the museum's present restorer, 51-year-old Jack Axtell, a good reason for restoring the Portland Vase all over again. Considering that it is valued at over $100,000, it was worth another...
Chloroform. The airline industry might find it could not afford to lose them all. The nonskeds had tapped a new market by making air travel cheap enough to lure bus and rail-coach riders who never flew before. If some of the irregulars had irregular safety records, they had also proved to the scheduled airlines that they could fill their planes by cutting frills and fares. Nevertheless, many scheduled airlines still agreed with ex-CAB Chairman James M, Landis that the U.S. was cluttered with too many airlines. "An intrinsically weak airline," he told a Senate committee last week, "either...
...17th Century intellectual world, thought he was creating a new philosophy on St. Augustine's premise: "I think, therefore I am." Sartre's fundamental observation, an overstatement of something found in the writings of Kierkegaard and the German existentialist, Heidegger, may be paraphrased as "I exist and find it sickening." The experience recounted in Nausea is one of deep physical and metaphysical horror, well beyond the ennui, already sufficiently sick, that such French post-romantic writers as Baudelaire liked to wallow...
...over nightly by efficient tow-trucks and earnest tag-bearing policemen. The Elbery Garage is full of student cars waiting for their owners t reclaim them--and pay fat discouraging fees. The no parking ordinance makes fine sense for the men who own garages; the people who own cars find it tougher to understand...
...workers felt, "If he wasn't killed by the rocks, he would probably have drowned in the water." Joseph Dodge, manager of the Appalachian Mountain Club and rescue chief, claimed that he couldn't have lived more than 15 minutes. "It may be days before we find him," Dodge said. "He's probably far below the ice field." Another searching crew will set out today...