Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affectations, with family sanction, or have they been induced by a fortnight in London? Does that hawk-shouldered young lady with the unattached hair and dangling earrings long to be at Mary Vorse's place instead of the Mandrake? Or is she dressing funny to emulate the women she saw in Vander Elk's "Paris At Midnight" photography exhibit? It is hard to tell. Are those lacerated loafers, that patched jacket, and ragged shirt collar a disdainful protests against the brandnew clothes, the slick show of affluence by the ascendant vulgar, or just magnificently down-at-heel aristocracy? Perhaps...
...Psychiatric Service saw 750 students last year, but it is thought that a considerable number obtained help from private psychiatrists in Boston. The exact extent of such help is not known...
Other Possibilities. Wynder also saw hope for making the cigarette safer along several other lines. One is to reduce the temperature at which a cigarette burns, now in the 800°-880° C. range, to a heat now shown to be relatively harmless-around 767.° the average temperature at which tobacco burns in a pipe. (This might be done either by adding a chemical to the tobacco, or-more likely-by changing the cut to resemble that of pipe tobacco...
...spectators crowded into the priory on weekends. A visiting Catholic bishop sat on the floor and ate mutton from a common bowl with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and a Moslem scholar, listened with a Jewish dignitary while tribesmen beat out Arab rhythms on goatskin tam-tams. "We saw that people living together for three weeks were quickly becoming friends," said Father Martin. "We learned how freely a Moslem and Christian can discuss their faiths, without any compromise on either side." The sultan himself addressed seminar members at his palace in Rabat, prophesied that his new nation would become...
Wish You Were Here. In Jackson, Miss., the U.S. Weather Bureau reported observing one morning at 11:35 ". . . unquestionably the most beautiful thing in all the heavens ... a magnificent display of iridescent clouds. We saw numerous splotches among the cirrus clouds of gorgeous opalescent rose pinks, emerald greens and turquoise blues. It occurred in a small area about 15 degrees from the sun and lasted only about 15 minutes. It can be fully explained, but only in the language of a meteorologist. However, it can be said that it was only a fragment of a giant halo due to unusually...