Word: patching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western standbys have been dragged in; the gun duel in the middle of the streets, the saloon killing, and the fight over fencing up the open range. Perhaps the most overworked angle involved the arrival of the U.S. Cavalry with bright blue uniforms and waving flags to patch things up when a crisis impends. Interspersed among the cliches are a number of bedroom passages involving Jennifer and Gregory, a bunch of mob scenes in the grand old DeMille tradition, and here and there a few small bits of genuine character portrayal. To cap off this two-hour-plus marathon there...
Your editorial entitled "Low Grade System" seemed to me an entirely wrong approach of the problem. It represented an attempt to patch up a system which badly requires complete overhauling. As an external prod to effort, grades offer a cheap substitute (and an ineffective one at that) for the only incentive worth having: the student's interest and eagerness to learn. The student whose prime motive for studying is the attainment of good grades is not worth the College's time, anyhow...
...pink butterfly. Inside, back among the brandy and perfume ads appeared a feature not nearly so old as Eustace Tilley, but already as much of a standby: the quietly perceptive weekly Letter from London. (Last week's topic was the coal crisis: "like living a bad patch of the war all over again...
...fortunate were the crew and passengers of a charter plane flying from Miami to Newark the same night. Trying for an emergency landing in southern New Jersey, Pilot Robert Sheker could not see the field, crashed in a patch of woods. Three were killed, 19 hurt...
...Artery Patch. A break in the aorta, the big artery leading away from the heart, is hard to repair; surgeons have tried patching with a length of metal tube, transplanted blood vessels, etc.-without great success. Dr. Charles A. Hufnagel of Harvard Medical School described a new patch that he thinks may fill the bill (it worked well on dogs). His invention: a tube of lucite, the glasslike plastic. Attached to separated ends of the aorta, a lucite patch lets the blood flow freely without clotting, becomes firmly attached to the artery, can be left in the body permanently...