Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With Birgit on his mighty right arm, Johansson even made occasional forays into the nightclub whirl of Manhattan. In the gym Johansson worked hard on the bags, but treated his sparring partners with loving consideration. None seemed worthy of his right hand, and nobody even saw it in action. Self-appointed experts began to doubt that it had ever existed. JOHANSSON TALKS A GOOD FIGHT, sneered the New York World-Telegram...
...scientists are startlingly "self-impoverished," the narrowness of those who cling to the traditional culture is appalling. Snow finds the brainiest traditionalists unable to describe the second law of thermodynamics,* a question equivalent to asking: "Have you read Shakespeare...
...still ends up in that spot." Ekblom has not ended up in that spot because Hupp is only one of his interests. The son of an immigrant cabinetmaker, Ekblom went to work after grammar school, earned enough money to set up an auto repair shop at 16, became a self-taught expert in economics, accounting, corporate law and management. He turned his hand to selling cars and several other businesses, became a corporate doctor for sick companies, opened a Wall Street brokerage firm. Five years ago he bought 6% of the shares of Hupp at a time when the onetime...
...Self Zipper. For women who have a hard time zipping up the backs of their dresses, L.M.B. Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia is selling the Zip Master, a long nylon cord with a brass spring fastener that clips onto the slide tab. Price...
Among the Renaissance characteristics are balance and symmetry, which Romeo and Juliet has in superabundance. An early member of the canon and only the author's second attempt at tragedy, the play is at times literarily self-conscious and structurally too obvious in its symmetrical balance. Every idea has its complement: love vs. hate, day vs. night, patience vs. impetuosity, chastity vs. bawdry, and so on. Every character has its foil: Romeo and Mercutio, Juliet and Roasline, Benvolio and Tybalt, Friar Laurence and the Nurse. If it is not a supreme achievement, it is still a great play...