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When their tutor first opened the front door, the three students were dumbfounded. Inside, the house was bedlam. Assorted children were attempting to catch several stray dogs apparently intent upon the family's female beagle. A second glance however, was enough to reassure the tutees. Unruffled and majestic in the doorway stood Myron Piper Gilmore. Bidding them a cordial welcome, he laughed the slightly apologetic laugh of a man who, though not immune to crisis, can almost always rise above it. Perhaps for this very ability, he is now a full professor and Chairman of the History Department...

Author: By H. CHOUTEAU Dyer, | Title: Unruffled Humanist | 11/15/1955 | See Source »

...truck precedes the harriers around the tricky layout. It acts as a sort of beacon to those who might stray of on a wrong bridge or road. No one got lost yesterday, but such occurrences are not unheard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Cross-Country Team Defeats UMass, 21-45, with Depth, Strategy | 10/1/1955 | See Source »

...give the manufacturer a break, because of the chance that stray virus in the air of his labs may give him a false positive test, he need not throw away a batch of finished vaccine after a single unfavorable test. He can have it tested in other labs, and if two successive tests are favorable, submit the batch for U.S. approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Near-Disaster | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...appears that a vaccine can pass rigorous tests and still not be safe for human beings; it seems possible that the arm muscle of the young human animal is the most sensitive of all testing materials for polio virus. It looks as though a vaccine containing only a few stray particles of active virus-which might do no harm to a monkey or great ape when injected into the brain or spinal cord-may touch off paralytic disease when injected into a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Dangerous Short Cut | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Kerensky, then 35, skittishly mistaking a few stray shots in the courtyard outside his palace office for the beginning of a counterrevolution, leaps to the windowsill and bellows hoarsely: "Stations everyone! . . . Listen to me-I, Kerensky, am speaking to you, Kerensky is speaking to you! Defend your freedom and the revolution . . . Stations everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How It Started | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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