Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whirled to the moon by a waterspout), but though fictional it is hardly scientific, even considering the state of science in the 2nd century A.D. Claims of other ancestors are unsurprising: Swift, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne. Until about 1940, BEMs kept a many-tentacled grip on the medium, but then came the big turning point. Readers became too sophisticated to accept the simple substitution of the blaster for the six-gun, and stories that were merely prophetic palled as scientists caught up with the pulp writers...
...junior high school year, a student should have picked three colleges. If all are equally tough to enter, disaster is possible. One prospect should be tough, one medium, one a shoo-in-and all worth the price. The odds are still unpredictable. Objective as they try to be, admissions men are still partly subjective. One may like redheaded girls, another tall boys from Texas. Many will gamble on a youngster with poor marks but some special flair that can liven a college. But willingness to look hard, and travel far, usually pays off in acceptance by at least one college...
...medium-price divisions-Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick-are bringing out compact cars. The new models will not, despite the rumors, be deluxe versions of Chevy's Corvair, but slightly bigger, considerably more powerful cars with engines in front. All three will have a wheelbase of 112 inches, use the same body shell and many interchangeable parts. Buick and Olds will share the same engine, a scaled-down aluminum block V-8 that turns up 150 h.p.; Pontiac's engine will be a cast-iron, four-cylinder job, canted at a 45° angle, with an output of more than...
...occasions in the past when you have dealt with me unkindly, and your unkind cuts have been read by myself and my closest friends and relatives and many of my dearest enemies. It seems a shame, therefore, that when an opportunity arose to write "well done"-or at least "medium well"-you failed...
...sometimes flying through the air, a leer that "lit up the whole theater"; livened the dated comedies of Sheridan and Congreve with such earthy humor that critics acclaimed him the "funniest clown in the world"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After struggling to the top through the rich medium of vaudeville, circus, burlesque, Bobby ad-libbed through a series of revivals that were not worth reviving without him. In Victor Herbert's Sweethearts, he confided to the audience: "Never was a thin plot so complicated." When informed in Moliere's The Would-Be Gentleman that the alphabet...