Word: ovale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lynn, Dr. Kelley's friend, delivered a paper on "Mimetic smiledness as related to handedness: an indicator of basic modes of human adaptation." He described his "smilometer," a wooden box almost five feet long filled with machinery as intricate as a Rube Goldberg invention. At one end an oval opening is cut out for a patient to insert his face. Inside the box is: I) a time clock; 2) a movie projector which reels off Mickey Mouse or The Ugly Duckling on a small translucent screen; 3) a concealed motion-picture camera which takes shots of the patient...
Passing by a well-lighted costroom on his left, he is greeted with the sight of old books and documents, especially those relating to the childhood years of Harvard, displayed, in cases around a pillared oval illuminated indirectly...
Back through the oval hall, Joe can take his first look and probably his last, at the cork-lined reading room, for only those who are actually studying the old editions will use it. From the large central desk, the librarian in charge of the room can look all doors electrically so that potential book-lifters can be trapped...
First revelation was at his press conference the morning the Reuben James went down (see p. 24). When 150 reporters filed into the President's oval study, the words of his fighting speech four days before were still ringing in their memories: (We wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot.} The shooting had gone on; U.S. blood had been spilt, U.S. lives had been lost...
When the front runners thundered over the hill into the homestretch (Newmarket's course is dog-legged, not oval, up-&-down, not flat), railbirds saw no Lambert Simnel, no Fairy Prince. In front was Owen Tudor, a belittled 25-to-1 shot, owned by Mrs. Macdonald-Buchanan. Coming from behind, the bay son of the great Hyperion (1933 Derby winner) had zoomed past the field like a Spitfire, finished a length and a half ahead of Morogoro, owned by the Maharani Saheb of Kolhapur...