Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Congress also: ¶ Refused, in the House Appropriations Committee, to grant an Administration request for $150,000 to conduct rainmaking studies. ¶ Approved, in the Senate Judiciary Committee, a proposed constitutional amendment for lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. ¶ Passed, in the House, a bill changing the name of Armistice Day to Veterans Day-in recognition of the fact that the U.S. has gone through two major wars since Nov. 11, 1918. ¶ Voted, in the House, to permit former Lieut. Zdzislaw Jazwinski, Polish flyer who escaped to Denmark in a Soviet-built...
...esoteric joke. A supernatural toy dealer mystifies tow earthly patrons with his clairvoyance; the scene closes when a predicted disaster comes true. The dull dialogue of Kenneth Donoghue, the dealer, and Jack Rogers, a customer in his second childhood, is enlivened only by the facile-clowning of Sonia Grant...
Mathilda Hills comes back on stage as the dreamy sister. Her beauty and skillful use of overstatement make her immensely appealing, while Sonia Grant, as the other sister ("I'm only easy to talk to because I talk about movies") is about the best comedienne in Boston...
Writing of Grant Wood's painting Midnight Ride of Paul Revere in your March 1 issue, you say ". . . it lacks every grace save precision and is as meticulous in execution as a Flemish altarpiece." Perhaps, but no horse . . . ever galloped with his two front legs stretched out in front and his two hind legs extending to the rear...
...Chicago's Grant Hospital one morning last week, half a dozen physicians gathered for the regular meeting of their medical audit committee. The meeting, like those over the past five years, was devoted to a businesslike examination of the hospital's medical records of the week. In perhaps the most important part of the session, the doctors considered the "tissue reports" of the pathology department. Their main concerns: 1) to see whether parts of the body removed by surgery were really diseased, 2) to see to what extent preoperative diagnosis had been confirmed by surgery...