Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operating room is silent except for the clink of instruments on the porcelain-topped table and the voice of the surgeon, muffled through a gauze mouth bandage, calling sharply for instruments. A bronchoscope, a long mirrored tube, is inserted in the patient's throat and a rod bearing a tiny electric light bulb dropped down. From the sidelines a slender figure muffled in gauze darts forward to squint for perhaps half a minute down the bronchoscope, then back to her sketching pad and color box to draw as quickly as possible the infected tonsils, the tumor, or whatever...
...raised the sash to hear him say: "Calvin's dead, Aurora." She sat down in the room in which the 30th President of the U. S. had taken the oath from his father at 2:47 a. m., Aug. 3, 1923, and let her tears run in silent grief...
Kentucky burley is used for pipe tobacco and cigaret blending. Wall Street. eyeing the silent war between the big makers of 15? cigarets and the makers of 10? brands, felt sure that the 15-centers were boosting the price (TIME, Sept. 19); high tobacco prices would cut deeply into the slim profit margins on which the 10-centers work but would hardly be felt by the leading 15? companies. Kentuckians did not care much, for they will jingle in their pockets some $25,000,000 more than they did last year, will go to the Derby anyway...
...Jonson, and also "Paradise Regained." And Pope. In the eighteenth century the little man in black, with the twisted shoulder and the twisted smile, was the terror as well as the delight of London. A single translation made him rich; he was bribed to write and believed to be silent. Pope had a full quiver, and all his barbs went home. Today he is damned, even by the now enthusiasts for Dryden, and not even with faint praise. The Vagabond in fact is making a pilgrimage to Sever 11 where Professor Greenough is speaking on Pope, principally...
...some time there has been agitation by members of the German department for the showing of German talking and silent movies at the Geography Building. So far not enough interest has been shown by members of the division or outside interests to warrant investigation of the matter...