Word: fines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale, when a second-rate law school and a third-rate medical school ("Starved and cold-shouldered," roared Angell) rose to take their places among the finest in the U.S., and when the school of the fine arts won so many Prix de Rome that the prize got to be known as the Prix de Yale. Angell cut across department barriers to give undergraduates an integrated curriculum. Under him, Yale began its system of residential colleges, started its university press and the Yale Review...
...horse opera singlehanded-from horses to Indian smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear apart a popular song with fine abandon or imitate a female wine-taster getting drunk on the job. As an extra dividend, man & wife dance team Marge & Gower Champion foot their way featly through the hour...
Girls Could Wait. Tony says he really took up shooting baskets to cure an inferiority complex. As a 12-year-old, he did fine at piano lessons but that didn't win him much prestige with his playmates; so he began practicing basketball shots at least an hour a day. Now the piano pays off too. At Yale, where many a student prides himself on his singing, he is a willing and able accompanist. He has already written a dozen songs (all unpublished as yet) which have such titles as I Want a Helicopter and Why Do You Make...
...Weather Bureau, looking on the dark (or cold) side, regards the 1948-49 winter as the hardest ever-worse in most respects than the winter of 1937. The records are not all in (spring does not come officially until March 21), but already the bureau has a fine collection of weather aberrations and never-befores...
Modern surgeons do an expert job of operating on human bodies, Drs. Lipkin and Joseph conceded, but too often they ignore human emotions. Everything would be fine if only a patient could calmly accept the idea of an operation. But patients almost never do. Most people have psychological weak spots and most surgical patients are "apprehensive, anxious people, reacting emotionally rather than rationally." They fear death (many make their wills just before an operation), pain, disfigurement, loss of function. The fears are as much a part of the patient as his gallstones or diseased appendix...