Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most of our articles are handed over by janitors in the various classrooms, and cover an assortment of study material like textbooks and lecture notes. Certain students are in here all the time, looking for the same books which they keep losing over and over," according to Miss Barbara Delant, the attractive head secretary...
What is promised from this new science is still nebulous though the inherent possibilities have excited the imaginations of scientists throughout the world. Weather prediction, for which tremendous complex formulae already exist, may be reduced to an exact process instead of the present hit and miss system; economists and anthropologists have reams of statistical data which may with mechanical aid be put to practical use; engineers, particularly aeronautical and metallurgical, may be able to come out of the laborious testing laboratory and try their designs quickly and inexpensively through machine aided mathematics. Automatic computation cuts horizontally across all fields...
...swap of 148 U.S. and British schoolteachers (TIME, Dec. 23) was not all a warm handshake across the sea. Pueblo, Colo, sent a teacher to London, got in exchange a pert, plain-spoken London schoolmarm named Miss Alice Elliott. When the Pueblo Lions Club asked for her honest impressions of U.S. schooling, Teacher Elliott startled the local Lions with a little roaring of her own. Excerpts...
...were merely indulging a fit of the sulks. Old Dr. Lionel Barrymore, a psychiatrist this time, is called in briefly for a diagnosis, but he is not really turned loose on June's case. She is allowed to run around with her dangerous father-fixation-messing up Miss Colbert's love life and attempting suicide-until she catches a young man of her own. By that time, audiences may have the uneasy feeling that she would be a good deal better off under close and constant observation...
...spiced with song-and-dance people who seem to understand what Kern was singing about. There are plain actors and a story in "Till the Clouds Roll By," but the best idea is to sit back, close your eyes and just listen to the music. You won't miss a thing...