Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stephen Aaron '57 and Melvin Maddocks, drama critic of the Christian Science Monitor, awarded Oh Dad, Poor Dad, the $150 prize as the best of ten plays submitted to the competition...
Arthur L. Kopit '59 has been awarded First Prize in the Adams House Play-writing Competition. His original play, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, will open in the House next February...
...medics adapted an inexpensive Rockefeller Institute technique, found that they could learn what they needed by putting a few drops of blood into solutions of copper sulfate ($1.50 per lb.). Pouring in fluids intravenously but giving nothing by mouth, Namru-2 doctors saw their patients recover. For the medically poor areas the Namru-2 success dramatized the fact that cholera, if promptly diagnosed and properly treated, need not be fatal. Proof: the death rate among Namru-2 patients dropped from the prevailing 60% to less than...
Swinging around to the dealers, Cole travels about 100,000 air miles a year. He has won their respect and hearty backing by listening to their problems, trying to correct one of their big complaints-poor assembly-line workmanship. He likes to inspect the Chevies in showrooms and on the lots, peers under hoods, checks the chrome, looks hard for water leaks. On occasion, he has flown in a team of engineers from Detroit to replace all faulty parts. Time and again, dealers give him their highest possible accolade; they bubble that "when Ed Cole talks to you, he makes...
...away, and slavers over off-duty hobbies that would make good latrine-wall copy. Why diffident Copilot Charles Boman, the novel's first-person narrator, hero-worships Buzz is a mystery, but it is presumably because Marrow oozes self-confidence and is a genius at the flight controls. Poor Bo is colorless, decent, sensitive about being short, and his virtue consists of the absence of vice...