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...necessary precursor to space travel, this satellite is due to be launched next fall, and a large part of the project's success depends on the preliminary work being done at the two observatories...
...within three minutes of lighting a cigarette. Still more provocative was the case of a man whose pulse went from 68 to 104 after he merely held a cold, empty pipe in his mouth for two minutes. Proponents of idioblapsis believe that it may be the direct precursor of heart attacks or even cancer. Happy with what they called a "revolutionary, all-important theory," allergists scattered from Florence to their home cities, vowing to seek proof of it in their patients' pulses...
...literary precursor of the novel was the tale, originally an oral narrative. In the hands of such latter-day practitioners as Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm, the tale became a highly sophisticated means of telling a story that would not be believable if told in any other tone of voice. In The Seven Islands, Novelist Jon (The House by the Sea) Godden makes the unbelievable believable by spinning with quiet skill a stately little tale about India and hanging from its frail threads the weight of an ancient way of life...
...capitals of Asia. and Indian President Rajendra Prasad agreed to welcome the delegates to New Delhi. The Congress Party's tough anti-Communist Bombay Boss, S. K. Patil, rounded up a delegation to participate in the proceedings. The press began touting the affair as an official precursor to the impending 29-nation Asian-African conference at Bandung, Indonesia...
...strictly dramatic criticism, however, Bentley's virtues are not so clearly defined. He has been heralded as the precursor of a new era in criticism; at times he poses as a modern Cassandra, decrying the decadence of Broadway; more often he seems to be a crank, who doesn't really care for the theatre...