Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from man," wrote Herman Melville of the finback whale. "This leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race." Captain Ahab and his men felt the same way, concentrated on other, slower beasts (notably the sperm whale, a species to which Moby Dick himself belonged). But today, with steam power and steel cables, the "unconquerable Cains" of the ocean, the fin and the blue whales,* are hunted vigorously-and among the most interested hunters is modern medicine...
...sixth floor houses four squash courts, a tennis and squash supply shop, lockers, a television room, dressing rooms for commuters, and shower rooms. The other two squash courts are on the seventh floor along with the gymnasium, steam room, masseur, and 12-bed dormitory, used when the bedrooms are filled...
...Michael Stewart, 20, whose father is president of a steam turbine company in Trenton, N.J., played end on Princeton's football team, won the John Prentiss Poe Memorial cup, the highest honor Princeton can bestow on a varsity football player. An honor student in philosophy, he was vice president of his class, president of his eating club, Cap and Gown, president of the Westminster Foundation, Presbyterian religious meeting group...
...cannot, she outstares it. Just watching her handle a third-rate song can compensate for its third-rateness. Whatever her stage environment-riding an ocean liner or bucking the Main Line, singing of a dead husband or chatting with a live horse-she has the urgency of a steam calliope, the assurance of an empress, and a likable low-downness all her own. The Ethel Merman who began as little more than wonderfully lusty vocal cords has expanded and grown into an expertly manipulated stage personality; and in a show business that so often turns the funny into the vulgar...
...knows every sonority that has ever been tried and quite a few that have not. When the 10 flutes start a massed flutter-tongue passage, it sounds as prickly as a porcupine's wedding; other fascinating moments are reminiscent of a jazz band playing at top speed, a steam calliope, a sound track for a science-fiction film-all a frothy treat...