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...healthy smokers, explains Father Connell, because evidence of danger is not yet conclusive. But if the immoderate smoker is not healthy, or if science succeeds in providing conclusive proof of danger, then the sin becomes more serious. Taking into consideration that some smokers do not inhale, and that some grind out each weed after a few drags (but without bringing filter tips into his calculations), Father Connell leniently set the sinful borderline for excessive smoking at three packs...
...brass band can disguise the sad truth that this film is almost completely devoid of either sense or dramatic impact. The characters and the events that happen to them just are not interesting enough to justify the three and a half hours it takes this thing to grind to a weary...
Like the football player, the grind can become annoyingly obvious. But the University has devised several means of making him feel secure, and periodically distributes titles, scrolls, and dollar bills to help them along...
Early Life: Born in Lake Forest, Ill., son of a wealthy physician and Republican, he went to Hill Preparatory School in Pottstown, Pa., where his classmates voted him "biggest grind,'' and to Yale University (.'38), where he got his letter for boxing and football (end), though he had earlier won the unhappy practice-session distinction of dropping ten straight forward passes from Yale's All-America Clint Frank. He got a master's degree (1940) and a liberal bent from Harvard Business School ("I didn't raise my boy to be a Democrat," says...
Because surgery to remove venom sacs is so difficult, commercial producers of immunizing extracts prefer to grind up the whole insects and make them into an injectable preparation. (In this method, one school argues, there may be a danger of sensitizing a subject to allergy-causing proteins from other parts of the insect's body.) At the Hollister-Stier Laboratories in Spokane, Bacteriologist Edward L. Foubert Jr. has concluded that only a few species of Hymenoptera are important stingers in any one area, and that since most victims do not know just which varieties have stung them...