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...doctors, famed Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, who is also vice president of the University of Illinois, sounded the keynote. Said he: "Medicine is the handmaiden of science and religion. Religious and spiritual realms overlap more with the healing arts and sciences than in anything else man does. Try as we might to separate them, we can't do it, because that is the way we are built...
Tammany Plus. The small, smart, efficient high command of Poland's Communists, which one observer told me was "Tammany Hall with Tommy guns," plans to fight its battles one at a time, though occasionally these overlap. The projected seven-point program of absorption: 1) the wartime London government -in -exile; 2) the underground; 3) the schools; 4) the middle class; 5) the Socialists (now Communism's ally in the government bloc); 6) the peasants; 7) the church...
...applications, the Council set a precedent for recognizing nascent political groups. Members agreed that there would probably be a large number of organizations springing up between now and the national elections next year, and most members saw no harm in approving them so long as their aims do not overlap...
...constellation of Scorpio is a "double" star. Antares has a comparatively faint blue "companion" which is so close that it is almost impossible to photograph by itself. Irregularities in the earth's atmosphere make the images of the two stars dance around, forming "tremor discs" of light which overlap on the photographic plate during a long exposure...
...even his staffers knew about: he had come to tell prospective U.S. bidders that Churchill had changed his mind. Camrose himself has the Empire rights to the memoirs. He parried all U.S. offers until LIFE and the Times surprised him with a joint bid (both reasoned that the overlap in their circulations is negligible). Camrose went home with a two-page letter of agreement, one of many documents covering publication of the memoirs all over the world. Before all hands initialed it, the U.S. contract had grown to eleven pages and the complexity of a peace treaty...