Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune of "Rock-s-bye Baby" with a set of hilarious lyrics from the daily race sheet; this is probably the funniest sequence in the movie...
...compromise. His telescope has a concave spherical mirror, which is much easier to make than the parabolic mirror of a reflecting telescope. In front of it, to bring the light to a focus without "spherical aberration," is a correcting plate so slightly curved that it looks like plain sheet glass. The Schmidt telescope's advantage: it can take pictures of large patches of sky and have them turn out as sharp on the edges as in the center...
...book reviews continue on their consistent good level again this month. Leonard Friedman's criticism of Cybernetics makes a well-put case for work in the social sciences against the mechanical brain. Checking the balance sheet, the current issut is a better than average Advocate...
Director Jean (Johnny Belinda) Negulesco has tried, with some handsome lighting and photography, to give Street the look of an important film. Actually, like most movies designed for the matinee trade, it is- little more than a carefully contrived balance sheet of petty emotional expenses...
...soon regretted the decision. He hated the work: getting out the sheet each week, rewriting the prince's pompous, half-literate articles, churning out copy for his own column, "The Diary of a Writer." And though The Citizen whooped it up for Czar and Russia, Dostoevsky found himself in several scrapes with the censors; once he was sent to jail for 48 hours for having violated a bureaucratic regulation...