Word: lamentive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justice with the development of the alcohol detection machine. One model has a simple arrangement that needs only a blood specimen from the suspected inebriate for its operation. Another requires the consumption of large quantities of water. Yet many still have little faith in the new devices and lament the disappearance of the chalk-line test. At a recent civic meeting, a New Orleans official gave a demonstration in the hope of inspiring interest and confidence in the Drunk-O-Meter, a type that measures the alcoholic content of the breath. Placing some 70 proof cough syrup at a handy...
Indeed, says Nathan Pusey, one of the first things that strikes a man returning after 25 years is the "omnipresence of the book." Part of the reason is that the Houghton, Lament and Widener libraries make up the greatest (5,600,000 volumes) university collection in the world. More important is the fact that Harvard is not only a university, it is also a state of mind. Nowhere is the pursuit of knowledge carried on with more intensity...
Petrillo (Eddie Oliver and the Oliver Twisters; Allied). ''Everybody blames poor Petrillo," chant these singers in what sounds like a peace overture between the vocalists' union and Petrillo's A.F.M. The lament is lamented in close harmony...
...largest gifts received so far are $300,000 each from Lament du Point Copeland '27 and Henry. L. Shattuck '01. The contributions mark the start of the first drive to increase endowment funds in any U. S. School of education in 30 years...
...Colorado visiting friends, Baritone Paul Robeson, great and good friend of the U.S.S.R., intoned an off-key lament. His appearances were getting harder and harder to arrange in the crass concert halls of Capitalism. "I think I find more difficulty here in Denver than anywhere," wailed the burly (6 ft. 5 in., 265 Ibs.) singer. "And that's no credit to Denver, since I still remain one of the greatest singers and actors in the world...