Word: licking
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...more conventional effort to map the Milky Way galaxy has just been completed at Lick Observatory, Calif. Dr. C. D. Shane announced last week that he and his observer. C. A. Wirtanen, have just finished a picture of the northern hemisphere sky. The job took seven years and required 1,246 plates, each 17 inches square and exposed for two hours. If all the plates were assembled on a single surface (not likely to be done), the picture would be about 50 feet square...
...Pimpernel and countless Napoleonic pictures show. But they always beat the rest of Europe, and delight in thrashing picturesque Arabs. After the French, there is no really powerful nation always assured of the victory our favor brings. Generally, though, an underdog people or nation can be counted on to lick the oppressor, especially if an itinerant American adventurer falls in love with the rebel leader's daughter (played by Patricia Medina...
...while it appeared that TV might escape the sudsy flood of soap operas. Almost all the original woebegone TV serials faded away in a matter of months. But Sponsor Procter & Gamble, which pays the way for eight radio soap operas, has learned how to lick the TV jinx. Explains Adman Roy Winsor of the Biow Co. advertising agency: "At first, we made the mistake of taking a single soap opera and sticking it into a 15-minute strip surrounded by other kinds of shows. It just got lost. Now we do it by block programming...
...tones of one who will never be shackled by ties of tradition and sentimentality. "We spit on Bonny Prince Charlie and Flora Macdonald. on Rizzio's blood and Mary Queen of Scots. [But of all Company Directors in the City of London and overseas ... of Scottish origin we lick the shoes; all Scotsmen who have succeeded at the English bar are remembered nightly in our orisons...
...philosophy, they'll probably make it. "Cross country running is mainly a test of endurance. Not so much the physical kind, but the mental toughness to go ahead when you're tired. The ones that ran here were awfully determined. Not the fastest in the world, but hard to lick." In fact, they licked everybody else. "They've done quite...