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...kick of debased Algerism, he earns his passage to America as a gigolo and enters the country illegally with a group of indentured shoeshine boys. He has alienated all sympathy when, upon landing in New York harbor, he kisses the dock; one almost wishes that he would get a sliver...
Places outside the total shadow will not get dark; even a thin sliver of the sun gives a lot of light, but the birds will feel that darkness is coming and may go to roost for the night. People standing under trees should watch the light that filters through the leaves. Normally it hits the ground as overlapping disks, each a round image of the round sun. But as the moon creeps across the sun, the disks will shrink to crescents...
Unaccustomed to that sort of guerrilla warfare, the British retreated in some order. They still keep their position in Zeckendorf Property Corp., an affiliate that they insisted be spun off from Webb & Knapp in 1961, where they are joint partners with Webb & Knapp with 47.5% each (the remaining sliver belongs to Alcoa). Zeckendorf Property has under way 13 promising urban development projects, including Manhattan's Lincoln Towers, and Zeckendorf plans to continue linking up with partners to build mw development projects-but to keep ouTsiders out of Webb & Knapp. He hopes that assiduous real estate trading can keep...
...Bergman who made this movie still had akvavit in his veins. Intellect, that glittering and treacherous Snow Queen, had not yet struck her icy sliver into his heart...
Bits & Pieces. Last week, as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology celebrated :he centennial of its founding as the Army Medical Museum, tourists still admired an Sickles' leg. They could also gape at a lock of Lincoln's hair, a bone sliver from his skull, and bullet-shattered vertebrae from Assassin John Wilkes Booth and President James A. Garfield. But pathology, the study of disease processes, has far outgrown the two rear rooms above the Riggs Bank that first housed the Army Medical Museum. The institute, which is a combined effort of all three armed forces, now serves...