Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have had to accept the traditional way." Little Chieko Tsuchida took up the argument. "My grandfather," she said,-"wants to pick a husband for me. I am opposed to an arranged marriage. My character won't permit it. I'm simply not the quiet or the obedient sort." Said Kanno: "She's an example of the otemba type...
...possible; in the male, it stimulates tubules in the testes that produce sperm. Dr. Li isolated it from the pituitary glands of freshly killed sheep. Since other researchers were looking for it, too, Dr. Li says: "I was damn lucky. I hit on the right method." With the same sort of "luck," he was also the first to isolate four other hormones, including ACTH. More work will have to be done on FSH before it can be tried on humans as a cure for some forms of infertility...
...illustration, the Met had wheeled in sculpture, painting and prints from most of its vast departments, had even borrowed a few pieces from the advance-guard Museum of Modern Art. As a result, the show was a sort of digest version of the Met itself, and as it was all in one place, a little easier on the feet of the tourists who would be dropping in all summer...
What is left of the story is carried rather heavily by Shirley Temple and Tom Drake, two undergraduates busily involved with love and misunderstandings. But most of the time Director Elliott Nugent, who has a special knack for this sort of thing, keeps his lens and sound track trained on Clifton Webb. By neatly trimming the tone and pace of the film to Webb's personal high-comedy style, he has kept the Belvedere formula fresh and amusing...
...elders wrote for idle souls, but for the public which we, in our turn, were going to address, the vacation was over. It was composed of men of our sort who, like us, were expecting war and death. For these readers without leisure, occupied without respite with a single concern, there was only one fitting subject . . . their war and their death...