Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formation of gallstones, says Dr. Benmosché, is very like the process of cooking old-fashioned rock candy. In candymaking, slender threads are dropped into syrup, and sugar crystallizes around the threads. In the formation of gallstones: 1) the juices in the gall bladder become thickened by bacterial infection; 2) delicate cells drop off the bladder walls into the cavity, combine with the thick juices to form a tiny core; 3) cholesterol (one of the solids in bile) gathers around the nucleus, hardens into a stone...
Originating the Notre Dame shift at the burlesque show and the forward pass at a bathing beach, pat O'Brien, with nose pushed left, gives an entertaining but not convincing performance as "Knute Rockne--All-American." Only Ronald Reagen sparks the picture as George Gipp, Rock's greatest player. His sincere death bed histrionics make the flabby sentimentality of the last quarter of the picture worse by comparison...
...American premiere of "The Family Reunion" by T. S. Eliot '10 will be the first of a series of plays to be offered this year by the Harvard Dramatic Club in its new expanded production schedule, A. George Rock '41, club secretary, announced yesterday...
Directed by Rock and Roger Sheppared ocC., "The Family Reunion" is set in a contemporary English background and is the study of a family curse. Evident in the play are elements of Greek tragedy such as a chorus and the Eumenides, who were ancient Greek furies...
...almost entirely flat so that motorized columns can romp over it at will unless they meet their military match. The only major obstacles of terrain are the great rivers which flow southward into the Black Sea. While the Ukraine looks flat, it is actually underlaid by layers of rock sloping slightly upward to the east. These layers overlap one another like shingles and the rivers run beside the overlaps, with one low bank subject to flooding and one steep bluff on which most of the big towns lie. But the high bank in each case is on the west...