Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fred and Martha Schwartzwalder were unimpressed. "The thrill isn't in the money," explained Fred. "For me the thrill is in finding that mineral after 25 years of looking. Now I'd like to go off and hunt some more." Adds Martha: "We've been poor people all our lives, and we're too old to change our ways now. After all, we got there second. God was there before us, and we feel He led us to the mine...
...importance of climate in treatment has been sharply discounted. Finally, as Trudeau doctors will point out, TB has dropped in 50 years from the nation's second-ranking killer to seventh, takes only 6% as many lives as it did in 1900. Explained one Saranac doctor: "TB isn't dead, but sanatorium treatment...
...California hills, they stop at Brian Aherne's sheep farm. Brian is away, but Jean Simmons, his daughter, fills the office of host -and her blue jeans, too-very nicely 'Father taught at Oxford," she informs her guests. Rory asks politely: "That's the biggest isn't it?" "The world sickened m, Jean goes on, "and he [came out ] find peace and isolation." Then she reads to them from father's works...
Secretary (warming to her subject): Let me finish. Isn't that what the smoker is for, after all, and here you get the same effect with no chance of a disturbance. Why, I've heard several students say that nothing untoward ever happens at a Radcliffe formal...
...means convincing but they are high-spirited, well attuned to the demanding deception, and add much to the show. James Gray as Bert, the newspaper managing editor, though unpadded, is another stand out. Stephen Addiss, William Newlin, and Gordon Martin range from excellent to a competency which isn't worth a quibble...