Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his exhibitions, movie shorts and lectures, Andy Varipapa earns about $25,000 a year. His advice to the nation's 18 million amateur bowlers: the approach is the most important thing, four even steps with no sudden stop when the ball is released (though he himself, an exception to his own rules, takes five); the arm should swing up as if the bowler were throwing it up to shake hands with someone; the eyes should not be on the pins but on a point at the foul line where the ball will first touch. But there...
...psychological traits inherited? Dr. Calvin S. Hall, of Western Reserve University, believes that some are. In the current Journal of Heredity, he reports experiments to prove his point. His subjects: mice. The trait chosen for study: "audiogenic seizures," i.e., dying in convulsions when scared by a sudden noise...
Though some businessmen were baffled by the sudden uproar, Rand knew very well what he was doing. The Government had seized G.A.F. in the belief that G.A.F.'s Swiss parent, I.G. Chemie, was a front for Germany's I.G. Farben. But since the war's end I.G. Chemie has intensified its claims that it never was any such thing. Remington has bought large interests in I.G. Chemie-and in Interhandel, its corporate successor. If Rand can prove that U.S. seizure of G.A.F. was unwarranted, it will have to be returned to the Swiss, with whom his chances...
Another of the book's three stories, Cat Up a Tree, is a short and exhilarating sketch of a fire engine's mission on a bright windy morning, "a witches' morning, a morning of little devils and hats popping off, of flurry and fluster and sudden shrill laughter...
...effect of the coal crisis, industrial shutdown and the blizzards and floods has been to draw Britain's workers closer to their Labor Government. The shocks gave Britain's workers a sense of responsibility, a will to work they had not had for a long time. The sudden threat to their pay checks had something to do with it, too, and the jolt was healthy for everybody. Unhappily along with the jolts came material shortages which make it impossible for millions to work full time at full effort, even if they want...