Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There should be no departure from the generally accepted principle that the law does not concern itself with the private irregular or immoral sexual relationships of consenting men and women." But there should be stricter safeguards for the young, and the age of consent should be raised from 16 to 17 years...
...jars to customers by gravity and save up to 40% of floor space. To solve the traffic problem inside his stores, Shield broke the conventional supermarket pattern of long, parallel shelves and narrow aisles. For his new layout he had architects design short, boxy shelves, spot them in irregular arcs to create broad aisles and thereby eliminate bottlenecks for grocery carts...
...minor characters, however, are sharper and more consistent. As the "only irregular daughter" of the late Mr. Dudgeon Sr., Patricia Goest is really appealing, and Wayne Maxwell is a fine half-wit brother of "the devil's disciple." There are also several British soldiers marching up and down in front of Darwin Reid Payne's clever set. Exhuding pompous noises, Harvey Widell makes them a fine sergeant. The play's best role, that of General Burgoyne, is given the night's most polished performance by Stanley Jay. Bored with the whole war, Burgoyne says some magnificent things. When Dudgeon asks...
...number of persons who have inherited abnormal amounts of fat in their bloodstreams, cholesterol is the result, not the cause of the disease." Researcher Blumenthal's next step is finding out what chemical substances the body builds to keep artery walls elastic; already he has seen a few irregular cases of high blood pressure where the body created new elastic material to offset abnormal wear and tear, notably in coronary arteries. After Blumenthal and his aides isolate the elastic substance, they will concentrate on developing a man-made elastic to compensate for the ravages of stress...
...Lists of irregular verbs rarely stimulate either teachers or students. Yet, in order to restrict the fellowship of educated men to those acquainted with a foreign language, Harvard must require students to take a large number of arid courses which deal with little more than verbs, syntax, and whatnot...