Word: opener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Danner's younger brother Bill, a 6ft., 5 in., 200 lb. sophomore, will open at center if his sprained ankle is sufficiently healed. Bill Danner is the squad's strongest rebounder, using his bulk authoritatively, and he has improved his scoring touch considerably...
Last week the dispute came to open warfare. The first barrage was laid down by Biologist Jean Rostand, 65, who reputedly knows more about frogs than any man alive, and who had been elected to Herriot's vacant seat in the Académie Française. Wearing the academy's braided uniform and cocked hat and with a sword dangling awkwardly at his side, Rostand, as custom requires, used his acceptance speech to eulogize the academician whose place he took. Herriot's last moments, according "to certain witnesses," said Rostand, were not "in harmony with...
Great Advance. By pulling back an inch or two of the stiffening wire, they leave some of the spring pressing against the aortic valve. When the valve's leaves open to let blood out, the tensed spring pushes through, taking the polyethylene tube with it. With the end of this tube in the ventricle, the spring is withdrawn. Diagnosticians can then take samples of blood for a variety of tests, check pressure inside the ventricle, and inject radiopaque dyes for X rays to reveal abnormal or damaged arteries...
...reinforced concrete. As well as recalling the past, Tange believes his building must also "make an image of our new social structure." For Tange this means the new democracy in which citizens are now invited to become part of the government. To welcome them, he has left the garden open for concerts, set benches under the raised stilts, put promenades and a tearoom on the roof to emphasize "this penetration of government by the citizens...
...sales success: the first nine points are distribution. To get his cards into the stores and keep them there, he set up a sales system that replaced the helter-skelter collection of boxes under the counter with a long display rack that put the selection out in the open. Hallmark sells the display racks to retailers at cost, also assumes responsibility for keeping the store's stock-both from Hallmark and from competitors-up-to-date, re-ordering when the cards get low. All the retailer has to do is ring the cash register. While others in the industry...