Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them against possible submarines, the King George V, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Jellicoe and Beatty were reported by Britain's foremost naval commentator Hector Bywater to be undergoing their trials before joining the fleet. If all five of these 35,000-ton ships have reached this stage of completion, the British have done some fast work, for on ordinary schedule most of them would not have been completed till...
...Tilney spent long hours with his patients and his laboratory, studying brain tissues of men, apes, rats, reptiles, birds, fish. He believed that most men use only a quarter of the 14 billion cells of the brain cortex. "The brain of modern man," said he, "is only some intermediate stage in the ultimate development of the master organ of life." When man's brain finally bursts into full bloom, he prophesied, depressions and wars will disappear...
...till he was eight, did not see a professional show till he was 19. Playing in London are his autobiographical The Corn Is Green, packing them in after 600 performances, and The Light of Heart, story of a drunken, down-at-heel actor who gets his last chance to stage a comeback in a myth ical Charles B. Cochran production of King Lear...
...merely a threat. The French bought obsolescent Curtiss P-36s, surprised most U. S. airmen after war came by showing that they could put on a first-class show against the more advanced Messerschmitt log. The British bought Lockheed Hudsons, North American trainers, long past the secret stage. The one-year rule was first broken last September when the French were allowed to buy a new Douglas attack-bomber. Everybody knew the reason: the Air Corps was already interested in a new and better Douglas, now in production...
...poor spectator who continually demands originality in the paintings which he sees. Honest performance and an intelligent approach have become rare birds these days, but they can be found in the work of Hollister. He is a fine draftsman, and he succeeds in rising above the stage of self-consciousness. The paintings of Elliott Richardson '41 betray a certain naivete of approach, but they are straightforward and clear. Nothing artificial, nothing that might protrude as a deliberate attempt to gain an effect is present. His handling of the water in the foreground of his large oil is to be admired...