Word: haling
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...that year, the Republicans had a gala public meeting in Boston, with reserved seats in Tremont Temple. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale presided over a collection of notables which included Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, and Elihu Root...
...more like his prim, pious mother Júlia. Stern Widow Júlia reared the boy and his older sister Maria on a schoolteacher's salary. Harried and embittered by poverty, Júlia drilled into her son a fierce will to succeed. Now a hale-looking 83, she still calls him by his boyhood nickname...
...plate. Much the same result can be accomplished by amplifying dim light instead of gathering more of it. Dr. Albert G. Wilson, director of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., believes that a 40-in. telescope equipped with a Lumicon will equal a 240-in. telescope in luminescence. The 200-in. Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain, the world's biggest, can be made to equal a 1,200-incher...
...Wendell Holmes, one of the honored guests, read a poem patterned after "The One-Horse Shay," and entitled "How the Old Horse Won the Bet.' This poem was not one of Holmes' masterpieces, but the board felt it was certainly worth publishing and sent their best material-monger, Everett Hale, around to see Holmes the next morning...
...rather have a live husband.") Actor Lee (Death of a Salesman) Cobb suffered his second attack last June, plans to return to work this week. Charles Henry ("Doc") Strub, managing director of California's Santa Anita race track, has survived three heart attacks and, apparently hale and hearty, at 71, feels "better today than I've felt for the last 15 or 20 years." His last seizure was in 1945. Says Strub: "I drink only moderately...