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Author Green has a famous ear for dialogue. In some of his earlier books, notably in Loving and Concluding, that ear was tuned to the inner music of human personality. In Doting it picks up little more than some pretty tinkles, and a fair amount of surface scratch...
...microscope, which cost a third of a million dollars to develop and build, is so revolutionary in principle that scientists associated with the project had to start practically from scratch anl develop whole new areas of theory. According to William A. Shurcliff '40, Polaroid physicist who co-ordinated teams of physicists, chemists, and biologists on the project. "We had to throw everything we knew about microscopes out of the window...
Over the last five frames reliefer Donelan gave up only one scratch hit. Four bases on balls kept him in hot water, however, and McInnis had righthanders Bob Ward and Pat Groper warming up in the bullpen off and on all afternoon...
...Bruins, who looked generally weak against Ward's curves, had only catcher Lon Murgo's three-bagger and one scratch hit to boast about going into the ninth. John Valinote opened the inning with a double, and Ward hit the next batter, right fielder Bob McCue. Bob MacCounell was given an intentional pass to load the bases, but the next man up third baseman Bobby Wheeler, hit a bag fly to Benny Akillian in left. Akillian's throw was fast but wide; Valinote scored and the game was over...
...Kaung, Director of Public Instruction for the Burmese Government. Kaung said that Burma is just beginning to get back to normal after being almost totally destroyed by the Japanese during the war. "Our books were burned and our instruments were destroyed," he said. "We had to start from scratch...