Word: fines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twenty-eight years of teaching [college] science gave me the most fun I have ever had. It is fun to help students discover facts and laws unknown to them. [But] it does not take long before student and teacher have walked together out to the frontier of knowledge-a fine comradeship between an older and a younger generation. Each new generation of young scientists gets its happiness by explaining what was inscrutable to the previous generation...
...Holman and a visitor were putting their heads together at Louisiana State University School of Medicine, pondering problems of heart-and-artery disease, when an assistant offered Holman a gory gift-an aorta, nearly 2 ft. long, full of diseased areas. It had been sent to Holman in a fine Macy's-tells-Gimbels gesture by his opposite number down the street, Dr. Charles E. Dunlap Jr. of Tulane University...
...have been standing by in South Dakota, waiting for a break in the weather to soar aloft in a "Strato-lab" balloon carrying a 16-in. Schmidt telescope. Target of the flight will be Mars, now unusually close to the earth. When Mars is photographed by surface telescopes, the fine detail on its surface is blurred by turbulence in the atmosphere. There should be little or no turbulence above the 16-mile (80,000-ft.) level to which the Strato-lab will carry its telescope; photographs taken with it should give a better view of the mysterious surface of Mars...
...Colonel Cantrell, a cold collation of cliches, who provides a brutal portrait of a modern British bureaucrat. ¶ Sophie Bielska, who is destroyed by her own Anglophilia. She loves to say "dash it all," and her finest hours are those she spends with her fine British friends; happily, perhaps, she never makes it to an England that never was. ¶Herbert Wragg, whose honeymoon was spoiled because the toilet paper at the progressive boarding house he stayed at consisted of squares from the Daily Worker...
...Touch of the Poet. One of Eugene O'Neill's favorite themes-man's addiction to illusion-reappears in a sprawling but powerful tale of a boozing innkeeper and his crumbling pose as a fine gentleman. With Eric Portman, Helen Hayes...