Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commonest form of heart attack is a coronary thrombosis: a blood clot in an artery supplying the heart muscle checks the blood flow and starves the muscle. To overcome this handicap, the heart must labor excessively; like a car on a steep grade in high gear, it pings alarmingly and may stall. A noted Canadian psychiatrist suggested last week that the basic cause of the trouble may be found, not where doctors have been looking, in the patient's physical exertions or his arteries, but in his emotional problems...
...prison and had given.the boy a total of $19,000 to "help him go straight." Checking proved that the whole story was good as gold, and that Franks had already dribbled away about $6,000 of the money. (Sample investment: a big red & white teddy bear for his ninth-grade bride...
...year-old who runs for the University of Kansas track team. A year ago his coach decided that Santee's best chance in the Olympics was at a distance: 5,000 meters, where the competition for places on the team was not so tough. Wes made the grade in the U.S. trials but was a flop in Finland, where his slow time failed even to qualify him for the final. Dogged Wes came home and decided to be a miler...
Tonight at 8:30 (J. Arthur Rank; Continental Distributing Inc.), Noel Coward's 1936 play series, has already yielded two better-grade British movies, Brief Encounter and The Astonished Heart. Now three more of the original nine short plays have been transferred to the screen in a richly Technicolored episodic movie. Directed by Anthony (The Rocking Horse Winner) Pelissier, who was a featured player in the stage version, the picture is sometimes long on talk and short on the high sparkle that Coward and the late Gertrude Lawrence gave it in the theater, but it is a faithful, well...
...Jeemie!" Few Haitians can understand why a man as successful as Jimmy still works in his own plant. But, responding to Jimmy's affection for the country and grateful for the revolution he has wrought, the Haitian government has awarded him the National Order of Honor and Merit, grade of Knight...