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Oscar Wilde was the epitome of the fin de siecle spirit and "The Importance of Being Earnest," first produced in 1895, is the epitome of Oscar Wilde. The pose of jaded cynicism and brittle sophistication thinly covers a high-spirited appreciation of the comic, and his wit, compounded of epigrammatic form and paradoxical and unconventional sentiments is, if less "shocking" today, still distinctive and sparkling...
...present prices), whalers hope to have a $30,000,000-a-year business before many years have passed. They intend to ask, at the meeting next month, for a relaxation of the international whaling agreement, which now restricts kills to 16,000 blue-whale units (two fin whales, or two and a half humpbacks are counted as one blue-whale unit). They argue that with fewer ships, tight restrictions are no longer necessary...
Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield), a rich young Englishman of the fin de siècle, was supposed to be the embodiment of youth's beauty and innocence. Artist Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore) was inspired by him to paint his masterpiece. But even as the finished portrait of Dorian stood drying, Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders) infected the young man's mind with the dread of losing his youth and with the amoral desire to seek experience for its own sake...
When the new-hatched Chinook had grown to fingerlings, they were marked (by fin-clipping) and dumped out to swim to the Pacific. When, four years later, the full-grown fish swam back up the Columbia to spawn, the biologists watched them anxiously. Sure enough, instead of heading for the waters above Grand Coulee, as their parents had done, the fish swam up the lower streams into which they had been dumped as fingerlings, and spawned there...
President Lowman appealed to the Texas Chamber of Commerce for help. The Chamber called Army Ordnance. Ordnance sent a man to Huntsville, got back a surprising report: he had found equipment and manpower enough to turn out 10,000 steel bomb-fin assemblies a month (with the boxes to ship them), plus sizable quantities of tank gears, canvas gun-covers, gas masks and other auxiliaries...