Word: givings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about his roommate's sex life, two reminiscences of childhood in Dobbs Ferry, and the coffee cups poem. He hated the idea of writing a "potboiler," but he was three thousand words behind. Three times that weeks he had started another reminiscence of his Dobbs Ferry childhood, only to give up in disgust...
...London, the Anglican magazine Prism urged an investigation of British-made horror movies, but mildly suggested that nudist movies cannot long tempt the faithful, because sitting through bare-skin epics "produces a tedium so oppressive that it seems impossible that they can do harm: rather, they seem to give a hint of the timelessness of hell...
...system when it came nearer and its signals were easier to receive. The transmission was done by a sort of TV camera that scanned the pictures electronically, line by line, and translated their varying shades of brightness into varying radio signals. The number of lines could be changed to give different degrees of definition. The maximum was 1,000 lines a picture, which yields a definition about twice as fine as the normal TV picture...
...investigate "with zeal a reported arrangement between Hearst and Scripps-Howard news, paper chains to carve up their markets." Continued the Guildsmen: "Now more than 600,000 subscribers of the Hearst Journal-American . . . may soon be deprived of their favorite newspaper, despite denials. The Hearst Journal-American thus would give its 1,500 faithful employees of long service Christmas presents in the form of dismissal notices...
...meant the end of chances for an unopposed Ivy crown. News from Philadelphia, however, indicated later that Penn, playing on its own field with the services of captain John Jerbasi, had tied Yale, 4 to 4. Thus, unless fate intervenes, a Crimson victory in the Yale encounter will still give the varsity the championship by half a game...