Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep the tissues fresh. Ordinary refrigeration and thawing made them useless. The Navy got around this by ultra-rapid freeze-drying; now it vacuum-packs them so that they can be shipped and kept anywhere at room temperature. Dr. Hyatt is testing tissues from stillborn infants, which seem superior to any adult parts...
...years, Wintle has been fighting his one-man war against enemies of his choice. He fought the Germans in World War I, lost three fingers of his left hand and his left eye. He fought Pathan tribes men in India, Irishmen in Ireland, his own superior officers wherever they blocked him. He fought slackness in his men, sometimes seemed even to consider death a kind of slackness. Halting at the bed side of a soldier critically ill with a mastoid infection, Wintle snapped: "It is an offense for a dragoon to die in bed. You will get better at once...
...hand at the youthful but never completely successful Flying Dutchman - with little bet ter luck than others have had. Somehow, the old seafaring legend failed to fit in with the stark, abstract staging technique that has been brilliantly successful with other Wagner operas. Musically, Bayreuth's Dutchman was superior. Listeners were especially pleased with the Metropolitan Opera's statuesque Soprano Astrid Varnay as Senta. Most popular opera of Bayreuth's season thus far: Tannhduser, with the role of Wolfram sensitively sung by Germany's young (30) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, a rising new baritone...
Appealing his conviction on charges of conspiring to violate Delaware's school-attendance laws, Bryant Bowles, president of the Negro-baiting National Association for the Advancement of White People, won acquittal in Kent County superior court. His comment after his one-day trial: why did it take the jury so long (15 minutes) to reach a verdict? After all, said Bowles before a cheering crowd of fans, the jury "was made up of white people...
Consolation Prize. In Fort Wayne, Ind., an Allen County superior court judge ordered Norbert Rehm to cut the lawn every week for his separated wife, gave him "temporary custody of the power mower...