Word: interests
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Perhaps the most interesting feature of the blood drive is the collection equipment itself. On March 4, one of the Commonwealth's snappy new "bloodmobiles" will roll up outside of Brooks House for two days of vein-tapping. The "bloodmobile" is a specially-constructed vehicle that goes from town to town throughout the year, following the same general principle of the traveling libraries that wander over backwoods areas. Instead of landing books, the "bloodmobile" simply borrows blood, with the understanding that the blood will be returned if the donor needs it is a hurry, and quite possible with interest...
...some other departments, although it is not so rich as some other departments, although it is not so big, not so staffed with "names," the Music Department, year after year, has displayed competence, energy, and imagination unsurpassed anywhere in the College. It has frequently sponsored unusual events of national interest. The Faure Festival two years ago, and last year's Symposium on Music Criticism exemplify this extra-curricular activity. And within its curriculum, the department offers both a first-rate selection of courses and a first-rate faculty...
...professor was "absolutely behind the Marshall Plan" as a constructive means of rebuilding Europe. He claimed "it represents a positive policy which is in the interest of the United States" and "that is what a foreign policy...
Some scientists' interest in cancer is more than scientific. Quiet, balding Pathologist Albert M. Harris was one of those. Day after day he worked in the laboratory of the Sioux Valley Hospital at Sioux Falls, S.Dak. His father, also a physician, had had cancer. Young Dr. Harris was looking for a quick and sure test for the disease...
Above all, "The Treasure" is a unique Hollywood product. The cliches of romantic interest have almost been avoided; the movie has violent action, but for other purposes than immediate sensation; both Humphrey Bogart, who has been playing the same stock tough man for the last five or six years, and Walter Huston, whose last important part was in "Duel in the Sun," are able to do some original acting. The result is a movie with some power, a movie different from anything Hollywood has previously produced...