Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pete Ward at 7:28. After several shots were turned away by Jones, Downes drew two defenders toward him at the right point, then fed to Anderson across ice. Anderson found Bill Collins screening Jones at the left corner. His hard slap was perfectly placed and the red light flashed...
Viewed in this light, the findings of The Academic Marketplace are important only to Deans and Department Chairmen who are trying to improve their recruiting system. But perhaps the matter is more serious. Perhaps recruiting policy is so inefficient and inscrutable that it demoralizes young scholars, or keeps them from entering the profession. Perhaps the emphasis on research is such that these men slight their teaching and come to regard the production of educated men as impossible or irrelevant. Perhaps the emphasis on prestige accounts for the mountains of trivia which annually emanates from the pens of intelligent and humane...
...still cocky and rebellious, still thumbs down even the impressionists, and still puts in a ferocious day's work in his Kansas City (Mo.) studio in a converted stable. Because of an allergy, he has switched from egg yolk, once his favorite medium, to acrylic resin; because artificial light bothers his failing eyes, he paints only in daylight, often keeps his evenings illuminated with just a log fire...
...science's deepest mysteries is what makes living creatures grow and what makes most of them stop growing as they reach maturity. In Nature, Professor Carroll M. Williams of Harvard describes research that may cast light on this basic mystery. He has extracted from mammalian tissues a "golden oil" that, injected into a caterpillar, stops its development and prevents its transformation into a butterfly...
Died. Wallace Irwin, 83, popular humorist of a generation ago, syndicated newspaper columnist and magazine writer, creator of Hashimura Togo and his Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy, light versifier (The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum), novelist (Seed of the Sun, Lew Tyler's Wives); in Southern Pines...