Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finishing touches when the paintings were done, and sign them with a flourish. He soon found that young Van Dyck's work needed no finishing touches. Experts have since despaired of telling some of their portraits apart. The student's are as bold and right as the master's own, with the same purity and flavor, and only a little less body-for with all his talents, Van Dyck lacked Rubens' typically Flemish delight in pink-and-white flesh...
...improvised table, a mirror and an awesome machine. Technicians arranged the cancer victim on the table while Dr. Roger A. Harvey peered through the strange machine's ring sights (like those on an aircraft machine gun) at the patient's neck. When the apparatus was aimed just right, the technicians left the room...
High Hopes. If Radiologist Harvey's estimate is right, every day for the next two to three weeks more & more cancer cells in and around the patient's larynx will have their nuclei killed by the betatron's almost irresistible rays. Patients with deep-seated malignancies in other parts of the body also started treatment this week. Soon Dr. Harvey should be able to tell whether medicine's new weapon, which now costs $85,000, shows promise. If the answer is favorable, high-powered, penetrating X rays may be used in about 10% of cancer cases...
...ball cleared the right-field screen, sailed across Bedford Avenue and came to earth in a parking lot about 415 ft. from home plate. The Cardinals won, 5-3, and there was no joy in Brooklyn. There was still less in the first inning of the second game that day when Musial belted another homer to give St. Louis a two-run lead. Things looked black in Brooklyn, but it turned out to be the darkness before dawn. The desperate Dodgers got down in the dirt, clawing and scratching, and won the second game...
...take the sugar syrup home to the hive in the tree. If luck is with the hunter, they will bring comrades back to help carry the rest of the free lunch. When dozens or hundreds of bees are making the trip, the hunter can set his beeline in the right direction...