Word: sensationalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A few blocks down Massachusetts Avenue one of the best farces to be produced in many years is showing nightly before a packed house. Opening night at the show was not the sensation that one might expect, for at the time there was no indication that the play would have...
Each hair, say Emmelin & Feldberg, has a flexible bladder at its base. The hair itself is hollow and stiffened with silica. At the tip is a tiny bulb like a cork stuck on the end of a hypodermic needle. When the hair touches a victim, the bulb breaks off, exposing...
Was Shaw merely an iconoclastic critic of humanity's failings who exaggerated for the sake of sensation? Not according to him: like Lear's Fool, he meant every word he said. "The real joke," he once remarked, "is that 1 am in earnest."
But how does the nose do the smelling? The "smell receptors," patches of specialized cells in the upper nose, lie across air passages from tissues which are normally cooler than they are. Therefore the cells radiate heat waves across the air stream. Beck & Miles theorized that when pure air is...
Died. Lincoln Ross Colcord, 64, spinner of sea tales, authority on nautical lore; of coronary thrombosis; in Belfast, Me. Colcord created a long-remembered sensation in 1929 when he publicly debunked-Joan Lowell's best-selling "autobiographical" sea story, Cradle of the Deep, as so much romantic fiction, caused...