Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...players could stand the road pace gaily set by Cornell, 61, and Aherne, 56, and few would seem to have less incentive. Aherne has a profitable California grape farm, and hates the road-like nearly every modern U.S. actor (TIME...
These amounts, Dr. Wynder conceded, are not enough to explain the recent startling increase in lung cancer. So, he argued, either there are other cancer-causing substances still undetected, or there is something that may seem innocent by itself but increases the effect of these cancer-stimulating factors. Laboratory research is now aimed at reducing the tar's content of polycyclic hydrocarbons, either by achieving more complete combustion or by adding a catalyst to the tobacco...
...Done in Pediatrics. When they rush to prescribe one of the hundreds of anti-fever drugs now marketed, physicians are attacking the symptom, not the underlying disease, and may be interfering with one of nature's defense mechanisms, says Pediatrician Done. And although some youngsters' miseries seem to be the result of, fever, other children with a high temperature are as happy as clams, so in their case the treatment is "more for the benefit of the parents or the physician than the child...
...critics will hope he means it; in longhair circles the old storyteller has almost never been ranked above a sound literary carpenter. Yet few professional writers can honestly say that they do not envy his easy style, his civilized yarner's gift that makes most current fiction seem drear plodding...
...Hindu religion, he describes the life of a swami who found the secret of existence in a boyhood flash of illumination and pursued a course of sainthood to his death. And by the simple process of digging up the diaries of three French writers, he makes old gossip seem as juicily Gallic as a Paris headline scandal. Points of View is, in fact, as bland a job of literary borrowing and cool transformation as has been seen in some time...