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...American Chemical Society and recipient of almost every important medal that organization confers, Midgley in 1930 stood before his admiring fellow chemists in convention at Atlanta. Dramatically he demonstrated Freon's safety by drawing the gas into his lungs, using it to put out a lighted paper. The staid scientists gave him a rowdy ovation...
This year Oxford's Eights Week was only a haunting ghost. The now shabby barges were deserted, the towpaths staid. But, to keep up tradition, as Britons will, 23 skeleton crews-made up of medical students, underage youngsters and a sprinkling of special study reserves-bumped one another on the lonely Isis...
...coldhearted skeptics who sought to debunk Sikaiana with dry research got the shock of their lives from the Navy Hydrographic Office's staid, unromantic Sailing Directions for the Pacific Islands: "The natives are Polynesians and have remarkably light colored skins. They are handsome and have a splendid physique...
...people and their press wallowed in a bitterly helpless wrath exceeding anything since Pearl Harbor. If people had been complacent, they were not now; if they had hated the Jap before, no word was strong enough for their feeling now. From the staid New York Times to the most violent yellow journal, the editors laid on their most desperate adjectives, and none was stronger than the people's feeling. Some people, notably Congressman Ham Fish, even demanded that the U.S. take its turn at cold-blooded killing by reprisals against Japanese prisoners. (Such proposals were as stupid as they...
...most influential newspapers in the world, certainly one of the ten best in the U.S., the Monitor, with 144,000 subscribers, is way down the list in circulation. Staid, clean, published by intelli gent people for intelligent people, it is not popular; it accents information, shuns sheer entertainment...