Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pity that while the Queen was still lying in state, you could not find anything to say about Her, other than what appeared in TIME...
Department of Chemical Engineering Yale University New Haven, Conn. Although carbon dioxide does indeed leak through rubber 15 times as fast as air, the leakage is still slow. A CO2-inflated raft will carry a man four to six days. CO2 is used only for the first quick inflation: the raft thereafter is kept buoyant by a hand air-pump...
...this year a Georgian one. Senior of six brothers, four of whom he put through college, two of whom work in the Kahn firm, Albert is both spark plug and patriarch. He belongs to six golf clubs, has never so much as addressed a ball. Like his brothers, he still prefers a nap on the drafting table to a night...
Some people are content merely to enjoy music. Others cannot rest content until they have explained, or tried to explain, why they enjoy it. Such malcontents have included sensitive critics, brain-wrenching philosophers, precise, rubber-gloved scientists. But the question, Why people enjoy music, still remains unanswered...
...expatriate writers left in Europe is Kay Boyle, 35, Minnesota-born. Her short stories and novels still suffer from the elliptical writing that flourished in post-War Paris. They are difficult reading not because her prose is obscure, but because her characters are puzzling neurotics and she does not seem to know...