Word: minored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diefenbaker's crowd-compelling, headline-snaring campaign has seemingly given his Tories a running start to victory. The latest precampaign Gallup poll rated them the favorites of 50% of the voters who had made up their minds, v. 35% for the Liberals, 15% for the two minor parties...
...Staph," as medical men nickname the germs, cause the commonest and most minor bacterial infections-but also the most dangerous. They are found in boils and in the pus of infected wounds. They may cause pus-filled blisters all over the body of the newborn, and fast-spreading diarrhea. From the eyes (conjunctivitis) they can spread to bone (osteomyelitis). If staph spread to the inner surface of the heart chambers, they can cause heart failure and death. In the lungs they are a potent source of pneumonia; many of the pneumonia deaths following Asian flu are laid to staph...
Fire & Ice. When short, balding Conductor Ormandy stepped before the Orchestra Hall audience, he had only two rehearsals under his belt. He had decided on a "good box office" program of standards: Bach's C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Brahms's Symphony...
...sent them trudging on foot back to Cambridge. That was in Harvard's musical infancy. Last week the glee club assembled again (present membership: 135) to celebrate its centennial with the help of the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The program: Bach's B Minor Mass...
This is a tale about a reluctant swami. The setting is Malgudi, a sleepy little Indian town dedicated to daydreaming nonviolence. One of Malgudi's daydreamers is Raju, an ex-jailbird (minor forgery) who camps on a stone slab near a temple and counts the stars. When a troubled villager says, "I have a problem, sir" and Raju hears him out, the stargazer's career as a swami has begun. Soon he gets credit for every good thing that happens in Malgudi. He repays his followers in doubtful oracular wisdom ("What can a crocodile...