Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next door to the residence of the Prime Minister in No. 10 Downing St., lives (so every upper class Englishman has been brought up to believe) the Chancellor of the Exchequer-but this rule has ceased to hold. Gaunt, dynamic Chancellor Neville Chamberlain has every right to live in No. 11 and is rated the real head of the ruling Conservative Party, but he joins in showing every deference to the party's titular Leader, beloved and bumbling Stanley Baldwin who (conscious of his shortcomings as a statesman) was always trying to resign during his two terms as Prime...
...maggots eat dead tissue and germs, but do not touch live flesh. This maggot habit the late Surgeon William Stevenson Baer applied to the treatment of festering wounds and bone diseases. He got astonishingly good results. Surgeons every- where are beginning to use the Baer technique...
...management's amazement hundreds had to be turned away from the boxoffice. Passes were discontinued but people went on fighting to get into the Hippodrome (nearly 6,000 cap ). The repertoire was enlarged to include other standard operas. Carmen was to be given with a real live hull. The casts hastily scrambled together were surprisingly good. The orchestra was ragged, the scenery shoddy...
...into a $4.50 per-week Y. M. C. A. room, began work in the personnel department of a Standard Oil of New Jersey refinery. A Yale junior learning the family business on vacation, he said: "I'm trying to get a look at the way the boys here live. But it's pretty tough because . . . I feel as though I were on exhibition. But I'm learning things and I love...
Since this essential duality is true for atoms, reasoned Theorist Bohr, it must be true of all things out of which atoms are made. This general duality he called "complementarity," and proceeded to elaborate his thesis abstrusely. The net of his discourse was that if you live inside a ball, you cannot have any conception of its outside convexity, until you get outside. Then you cannot be sure of the internal concavity. Likewise you never can know all the causes of a specific result or all the effects of a single action. With uncertainty of cause & effect goes uncertainty...