Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortunately for him-and others-the Radithor outfit went out of business. Recently, responding to M.I.T.'s invitation, he presented himself for a checkup. Dr. Robley Dunglison Evans, 51, had him breathe into a glass flask, to test for radon gas in his breath, and into a mask hooked up to another flask to test for another gas, thoron, that has a half life of only 54 seconds. An ultra-sensitive scintillation counter scanned his whole body for gamma rays. X rays searched his bones for radioactive deposits. There, though the now retired salesman seems to be in good...
Last week the product of Tobias' threes-months' stay in the Amarakaire village was on view at Manhattan's Peridot Gallery. In large, freely stroked oils, brown-banged, stark naked warriors tumbled in play; the camouflaged mask of a jaguar peered from a matted jungle...
While most Southern politicians talk about states' rights and the threat of Communism to mask with more high-toned prejudices their own ambitious use of popular bigotry, some Southerners do not consider these issues entirely rhetorical. They fear big government and the status revolution which accompanies its growth. They sense a creeping commonality which threatens customary moral standards and seems to derogate the supreme values of privacy and personal autonomy...
...movies since 1940, it hardly seemed possible that glittering Gene Tierney might be "broken." Born well to do, the daughter of a prosperous Manhattan insurance broker with an estate in Connecticut's fashionable Fairfield County, her rise was a breeze. But behind the beauty and breeding, behind the mask of confidence, she hid too much to handle alone. There was quite...
Stranger in the Night. Home from a family picnic one day last week, the Nimers turned in early. Waking in the night, Melvin Jr. rubbed open his eyes, saw standing over his bed a strange man in overalls and white mask. The boy screamed for his mother; Loujean dashed in from the next bedroom. The stranger wheeled, flicked a knife; Loujean staggered to her bed with wounds in breast and abdomen. Slight (5 ft. 7 in.), Dr. Nimer leaped at the assailant, wrestled the man down the stairs, into the kitchen. Beside a telephone the doctor collapsed with chest...