Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mourning Becomes Electra (RKO Radio). The eye glides like a skiff across the black, lurching waters of a New England harbor. The sound track blares the black, lurching music of the chantey, Shenandoah. And on the screen the dreadful, faintly ludicrous enginery of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of incest lurches, and begins...
...gave a tragic urgency to the message of this book. Winant took his life in despair; yet he left behind this reaffirmation of a faith-the faith that had sustained the people of Great Britain (and the U.S. citizens who tried to aid them) in the months before Pearl Harbor...
...mouse holocaust was a major disaster to researchers in medicine and biology. The Jackson Memorial Laboratory, though primarily devoted to biological research, had been for years the leading source of experimental mice. Last year it shipped 350,000 to U.S. and foreign researchers. Deprived of the Bar Harbor strains, many researchers will have to start their laborious work all over again. To a researcher, a pedigreed mouse is a precision instrument. No ordinary mouse, nor a mouse of another strain, can be expected to react in exactly the same...
Magic-eyed radar, which guides the Queen Elizabeth through North Atlantic fogs, can guide a tugboat, too. Last week the New Haven and the Pennsylvania Railroads demonstrated how tugboat radar might eliminate fog delays in New York's crowded harbor...
...from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for Greenville on the Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made Jersey without trouble, though only the radar's electronic eye had seen the water...