Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...races were originally scheduled for two miles, but high winds forced the proceedings into the sheltered Cayuga inlet, which is barely a mile and five-sixteenths long. Conditions were very good for the jayvee race, but the varsity ran into stiff headwinds in the last half mile, which accounts for the additional seconds it took them to row the distance...
Michigan State took first, overpowering defending champion Yale by 44 to 30 1/2 points. NYU, Seton Hall, Cornell, Penn State, and Harvard followed in that order. Twenty-five teams scored out of the 46 which entered the meet...
...censors sat through five showings to make up their minds, called in psychiatrists, clergymen and social workers, finally insisted on chopping out eight of the film's most harrowing minutes. Cuts: scenes showing Actress Olivia de Havil-land undergoing shock treatment and a mental lapse; a patient drooling food; another in a strait jacket; several scenes of mad behavior that, the censors feared, might touch off hysterical audience laughter...
Weinbaum began manufacturing his stories during the early '30s. He populated Mars with clever, ostrichlike creatures who could learn snatches of human speech. On Jupiter's moon, lo, he placed giggling "loonies," dimwits with balloon-shaped heads and five-foot necks-not to mention six-inch "slinkers," nasty pests that looked like black rats wearing capes. Science fictioneers credit Weinbaum with two important contributions to their field. Where predecessors had concentrated on gadgetry and ordinary men, he tried to create characters for his non-human aliens, tried to weave his doughpots and other planetary faunas into his plots...
Pastor of the Second (Unitarian) Church in Boston at 26, making five pastoral visits a day and caring for his young bride (who died after a year and a half of marriage), Emerson revolted against what he called the "official goodness" of his position. The arguments that led to his resigning his pastorate (his refusal to administer the Lord's Supper) seem somewhat unreal in this account; more clearly traced is his growing conviction that the only way he could be a good minister was to leave the ministry...