Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...together to a little impromptus dinner of the Class of 1990. There several stories were told as contributions to the Rinehart saga. I think it was Arthur Drinkwater, out devoted Class Secretary, who told of a life being saved somewhere abroad (I think it was Cairo) by calling the magic words from a window. Also, of a man, broke in New York's Grand Central, being enabled to take his train. . . . May the spirit of "Oh Rinehart" march on--saving lives and binding them as fellow culprits in our wicked world, secure within the legends concentric of Table...
...streets gave Stevenson only a lukewarm reception. That evening at Richmond's Mosque Auditorium, Virginia's political boss, Senator Harry Byrd, was conspicuously missing from the speaker's platform. Busy picking apples, Byrd's friends said. But the audience was pleased as Stevenson invoked the magic name of Robert E. Lee and praised the Confederacy's constitution...
Germanium Hunt. The best ore of germanium, the scarce metal that goes into the magic electronic transistors (TIME, Feb. 11), may prove to be ordinary coal. Last week the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corp. was asking coal operators all over the Appalachian region to send in samples of coal for germanium assay...
...What we lack," says Dr. Kubie sadly, "is a magic mirror which would make it possible for [an] individual to look 10 or 20 years into the future to see the price that he will pay for [the] nagging problem which he is able to lock up in some watertight compartment today...
Lacking a magic mirror, Dr. Kubie offers physicians a rough test for detecting psychiatric disturbances: "If a patient can use common-sense advice effectively, no more is needed, and our patient cannot have been very ill. When [commonsense advice] rolls off the proverbial duck's back, then that duck is ill, and needs technical help as early as it can be brought to bear...