Word: nails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just as the proverbial kingdom depends on the horseshoe nail, so," writes President Pusey, "the good habit can influence destiny. This is why the custom of making annual gifts to the Harvard Fund has a cumulative effect of great meaning for the future of Harvard." While the Fund may have a limited influence on destiny, it is indeed important to the College. The moratorium on Fund activities during the Program provides time for a reassessment of the organization of the solicitors of the Fund...
...meticulously drawn portrait shows Lady Dalkeith robed in pink, with matching nail polish, even has slivers of tin foil glittering among her painted diamonds. The academicians think that it illustrates their goal of acting "as a steadying influence on the haste or extravagancy of innovators"-i.e., the pattern-conscious "kitchen sink" school of art. Lord Attlee found Merton's painting "awfully jolly," but art critics disdained it as mere "craftsmanship." Flooded with commissions, Merton rejoined: "I only paint beautiful women, children and angels...
...lives with his wife, daughter and twelve-year-old son, Jimmy, in a white-trimmed green ranch house. One day in February his wife called him at the office. "All the bottles in the house,'' she announced excitedly, "are blowing their tops!" Six screw-top bottles (containing nail polish remover, peroxide, rubbing alcohol, liquid starch, bleach and holy water) located in four different rooms, had opened and spilled...
Some U.S. physicians have already disagreed with Torrilhon's diagnoses, but he has cited enough evidence to make his case fascinatingly arguable (and to nail his M.D. from the University of Paris). In The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, Torrilhon spies out a small, red-coated figure lacking both feet and half an arm, lying on its back. His diagnosis: amputations following "a typical case of Buerger's disease, i.e., gangrene caused by thromboangiitis obliterans" (an inflammatory disease affecting blood vessels). In the same picture another male figure drags wasted legs behind him as he creeps along...
...clips, only one-fifth served their proper function; 14,163 were twisted and broken during telephone conversations; 19,413 were used as card-game stakes; 7,200 became makeshift hooks for garter belts and brassieres; 5,434 were converted to toothpicks or ear cleaners; 5,308 were used as nail cleaners; 3,916 became pipe cleaners; and the balance were dropped on the floor and swept away, or swallowed by children...