Word: life
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Jack Reichart, a 64-year-old inventor and appliance manufacturer of Muncie, Ind. had never seen an "iron lung" respirator in his life. Last week he was asked to make one in a hurry. Muncie's Ball Memorial Hospital, which owned the only iron lung in three counties, suddenly had 28 polio (infantile paralysis) patients on its hands. That lung was in use when Rue Steel, an eight-year-old boy who urgently needed a respirator, was brought in. Hospital Superintendent Nellie Brown asked Reichart if he could turn out an emergency...
...eight chests contained 1,300 unpublished pages of the Life of Samuel Johnson, Boswell's diary, the complete manuscript of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Boswell's correspondence with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, David Garrick and Voltaire. Isham had always wanted a place like his alma mater to have them. Last week, Yale bought them all with funds supplied by the McGraw-Hill Co." (which will have exclusive publishing rights) and the Old Dominion Foundation (founded by Paul Mellon, Yale...
...team of scholars under Professor Frederick A. Pottle (Yale '21) had already begun the job of sorting and editing. Eventually there will probably be a new Life of Johnson and a definitive biography of Boswell, together with volumes of correspondence and hitherto unknown poems by Johnson, and essays by Reynolds, which are included in the Isham collection. Scholars guessed that those books would be only the beginning. From now on, it seemed, no 18th Century scholar would be up on his subject unless he had spent some time at Yale...
...Small wonder that attendance at the worship of God has suffered and with it knowledge of what constitutes genuine fellowship. The state of Sodom and Gomorrah was a teddy bears' picnic compared with the viciousness of the average parish life and its tribal customs, which in some cases are shockingly primitive...
...nation we are approaching at a meteoric rate closer and closer to the edge of spiritual darkness and Christian bankruptcy. At the moment, our decencies of life, such as remain, are the coppers of our spiritual capital, which, like our gold reserves, are rapidly diminishing...