Word: minne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the twins joined the order, their names were Isabelle and Lucille Gay-the daughters of a Faribault, Minn, organist who had lost his own sight as a result of typhoid fever. Their father taught them Braille, sent them off to study the piano. The twins worked hard, and in time, were ready to play in public. Soon they became a familiar sight on Midwestern concert stages...
Slow Starvation. Donald began to have convulsions; he was slowly starving because muscular contraction made it almost impossible for him to swallow. Arthur Morton sold three of his eight cows to pay for a plane trip to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, last April. There Donald's case was considered again. The doctors' verdict: hopeless...
After 20 months of operation, the great 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain yielded its most significant discovery. Palomar's Dr. Milton La Salle Humason, a diffident, self-effacing expert whose own colleagues know almost nothing about him except his birthplace (Dodge Center, Minn.), last week announced that he had photographed the spectra of nebulae 360 million lightyears* away. He found that their light showed the mysterious "red-shift," indicating that they are moving away from the earth at 38,000 m.p.s.-one-fifth of the speed of light...
...Cloud, Minn...
...whistle-stop near Crookston. Minn, one day last week, the brakeman on a Great Northern local turned to the conductor and said: "Well, we got the new boss." "Who?" asked the conductor. "John Budd?" "Yup," said the brakeman, "his father always wanted him to have...