Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, a keen-minded Harvard physician offered the most convincing explanation yet of mongolism. It seems, said Dr. Theodore H. Ingalls at the New York Academy of Medicine, to be the result of an injury or shock to the fetus at about the eighth week of pregnancy. This does not mean that the cause is always the same type of injury or shock. In fact, said Dr. Ingalls, the trouble with researchers who have been looking for a single, simple cause is that they were like the three blind men describing an elephant: one found it all foot, another...
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...Thirkell novels is that practically all of them are about the gentry of Barsetshire-the English "county" created by Novelist Anthony Trollope for his own convenience and taken over by Novelist Thirkell. There is little further resemblance between them. Where Trollope was gruff, Thirkell is pert; where he peered keen-sightedly, she drops a whimsical, astigmatic glance. Trollope loved a knotty plot, but Thirkell prefers to meander undramatically through Barsetshire, finding husbands for her heroines and painting the local watercolors. When in doubt as to what to say next, she just says: "The months moved on in their usual...
...reach postwar college students, religion "must begin from scratch," concludes Professor West. He believes that that is perfectly practical. Of the typical college student he writes: "His image of God is vague. But his hunger and thirst after righteousness and the things of the Spirit are keen, even if confused. The Bible is a strange new Book of Life to him. When he has a chance to read it with self-criticism and with Christian guidance, he is fascinated with it and with its lasting insights and demands. In spite of his religious illiteracy, which mirrors our culture and tends...
...Pravda published a letter from Johnstone announcing his resignation, both as editor and as a British citizen, because of the anti-Soviet bias of British "warmongers." A few months later, Assistant Editor Robert Dagleish also resigned via a letter to Pravda and cast his lot with the Soviets. Lean, keen-eyed W. Richard Jones, assistant news editor of the London Daily Telegraph, went to Moscow as editor of Ally...