Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cooperating in the Ohio pen trials are Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Ohio State University's College of Medicine. Their researchers will inject cancer cells just under the skin (not into the bloodstream) of a volunteer's forearms. After two weeks, they will cut out one injection site (leaving a hairline wound about half an inch long). The second will be left and studied. It is expected that if there is any growth, it will be only at the injection site, and it will be cut out as soon as detected...
...Omaha's red brick Fontenelle Hotel last week, the nation's No. 2 hotel chain concluded the second biggest deal in U.S. hotel history. Using a dime-store pen, Sheraton Corp.'s President Ernest Henderson and Vice President Robert L. Moore signed an agreement to buy the 22-hotel Eppley chain, largest and oldest personally owned hotel group in the U.S. Its 22 properties in six states range from Pittsburgh's 1,500-room William Penn to the 123-room Tallcorn in Marshalltown, Iowa. Price: $30 million. (In the biggest deal, Conrad Hilton paid $78 million...
That was the moment and the look that Artist Koerner decided that he would try to catch for his portrait. Patiently, he persuaded Roberts to hold the pose hour after hour while he drew his wondrously exact pen sketches (see cut) and then put oil to canvas...
...modest, sparing and delicate talents, "the incomparable Max," as Shaw called him, belonged to an age of posturing geniuses and aesthetes (Burne-Jones, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Whistler, Oscar Wilde), was one of them but not one with them. With a few deft strokes of his caricaturist's drawing pen, he could put the lucubrations of a giant into gnat's perspective and keep the world itself in polite proportion. Wilde once remarked that he possessed the rare "gift of eternal old age." Despite his renown, Beerbohm remained a refugee not only from his talents ("My gifts are small...
...Germany's Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano next day. He and the Adenauer administration are having trouble enough to meet their minimum obligations to NATO in the prevailing apathy. Until the Russian changes prove much more trustworthy, he indicated, it is premature to let wolves into the same pen with the sheep...