Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like cullers grading a catch of salt cod for market, Newfoundland's National Convention sifted forms of government. The 45 members (TIME, July 8) drew their $10 to $15 a day apiece, and took their time. For six months they bickered and bantered on everything from relief to roads, from fish to politics. Then last month the Convention decided that it needed more information. It picked a six-man delegation to talk over with the British Government 1) a return to full self-governing dominion status, or 2) a retention of the present seven-man Commission of Government. Then...
...G.I.s stay healthy? The doctors' reasons: good food, plenty of water and salt, scientifically designed clothes, insect control, new drugs (e.g., atabrine). Wartime scientific research, which solved many of the problems of tropical living, also debunked a few old notions: that meat-eating in the tropics is bad, that white men cannot do physical labor in the hot season, that only "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday...
...their worst, can use emotions as if they were stage properties. When clever men try to write with complete sincerity and, at the same time, to apply their sophistication to simple matters, the result is sometimes specious and sentimental. There are ways of insisting that a character is the salt of the earth which are essentially patronizing. For example, the noble character of Frank (extremely well played by Mr. Newton) is often hurt by this unconscious patronage...
...spent in labs under the supervision of young instructors amounts to the same thing, but a more logical reason is that, with labs taking up most of the afternoons of the concentrator, there just isn't time enough left in the student schedule for a tutorial program worth its salt. Add to that the already tremendous teaching and research loads carried by most members of the department, and the story is fairly complete...
...Salt Lake City Choir (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Welsh airs...