Word: solids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson, despite the close decision, played very well against a stiff opening opponent. The Jumbos fielded a solid, well-rounded team and in the first half gave every indication of having the upper hand. In the second half, however, the varsity seemed to regroup...
Alarms & Excursions. Beyond that, as solid a reason as any for Murrow's edge is simply that he is a fine reporter with sight and sound; he has a gift for capturing actuality in its moods and nuances as well as its meaning. Many a veteran of printer's ink has been, in the words of one of them, "faintly scandalized that such good reporting can be done by a man who never worked on a newspaper in his life." Fellow reporters have nicknamed Murrow "the Professor" after his academic past and "the Bishop" for his solemn cadences...
...townspeople, elbow to elbow with priests and nuns-had swarmed into the 13th century Cathedral of San Gennaro in Naples. Promptly on the hour, a mustached monsignor walked slowly to a side altar, carrying a glass-windowed silver reliquary containing two glass vials partly filled with a dark, solid, opaque substance. As the priest turned the reliquary around and around before the golden-faced bust of St. Januarius, Naples' patron saint, onlookers prayed: "Come and grant us your favor, 0 beautiful saint, great champion of Jesus Christ...
...plan (see diagram below) treats three floors as a unit. Student suites--typically four individual study-bedrooms and a common living room and bath--are so arranged that all living rooms are on the middle floor, with a solid floor of bedrooms above and below. From each living room, inside stairs lead up or down to the bedrooms of that suite. Only the middle floor--where the living rooms are--has a central corridor with access to elevators and main stairways...
Under Silber's direction, five top seniors met two afternoons a week from 3:30 to 6. By the end of the school year, they had ground five varieties of fruit in a blender, whirled the fruit mixed with pure ethyl alcohol in a centrifuge to separate the solid matter, run the remaining solution through ion exchange columns to remove the salts, and then removed the water to isolate the pure amino acid extract. This year's group of five students will start to identify the acids. Silber pays his boys and girls 35? an hour ("enough...