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Other candidates for state officer who received endorsement were Oan H. Fann '44, a former assistant Dean who is running for the state legislature: Foster Furcolo, Democratic candidate for state treasurer: Mario Umana of East Boston for State Senator and Representative James E o'Pea Jr. of Lowell for State Representative
...retina, the point where the lens brings the image naturally to a focus. This did not work; eye fluids ruined the film. So he cut a small hole in the rear of the eyeball and placed in it a disk of film about as big as a pea. When an object was held six inches away, the lens of the eye brought its image to a focus on the film. The aperture of this "camera," he figured, was somewhere between fI.9...
...definitely enlisted in the camp of modern architecture and was ready to fight for it. He was sure he was on the winning side. Gothic and neoclassic skyscrapers were dying out in Manhattan; Hood had just designed the starkly simple Daily News Building and the equally simple-if startlingly pea-green-McGraw-Hill Building. Harrison and his partner Corbett were among the architects chosen by the Rockefellers to work on the designs for the most ambitious project of the century...
...cooked it anyway, in pea soup. Bohling tasted it, smacked his lips, pronounced it very good. Then, in a gesture of generosity befitting the occasion, he passed samples of it around to his neighbors...
...This," explained an Air France steward to 33 passengers aboard a plane at London Airport last week, "is what you call a real pea-souper." One of the thickest particulars in London's fogbound history was blanketing the field. It had caught the airliner just after she landed on Runway 280. Before the French pilot could brake to a stop, his aircraft was blanketed. "Stay where you are " ordered the control tower in answer to his plea. "We'll tow you in." Pilot Legillou ordered champagne and brandy passed out to the passengers. "We must be happy while...