Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisville's twice-weekly "radio-assisted correspondence course" in "Problems of Modern Society." It included a chorus of All Hail to You, Dear U. of L., a talk by Louisville's unshrinking President John W. Taylor, and instructions on how to enroll (to sign up, just tear off and send in a registration blank; for college credit, enclose $30 tuition and you will get study materials, written assignments and, in due course, exams). Negroes, who by state law are forbidden to study in the same classroom with whites, were invited to enroll...
...Next day he was presented to King George VI at the first tee (the first time a reigning monarch had ever witnessed a British golf championship). With his King watching, Cotton smacked a prodigious drive down the fairway. He birdied that first hole. Then he proceeded to tear Muirfield apart-green by green and fairway by fairway. His best round: a blistering 66, a record for the course in a British Open...
...cooperating with the Navy, the Weather Bureau and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, undertook to find the best way to deal with them. If a plane flies too slowly through the vertical gusts, it may lose flying speed and stall. If it flies too fast, the gusts may tear its wings off. This week the Air Force published a chart showing how fast various planes should fly through thunderstorms-if they must...
...Tear-Jerker. Ophelia is not an easy role, nor is it any too clearly written. Most actresses who try it (besides being old enough to spank Polonius) are likely to play the sane scenes like mad scenes and the mad scenes like a little-theater production of Ring Lardner's Clemo Uti, or the Water Lilies...
...eyes gleaming in the spotlight, she teased them first with a couple of new ones - but in the familiar, sweetly sighing Bailey style. ("I couldn't sing big if I wanted to.") When they kept roaring for it, she finally gave them Rockin' Chair with a real tear glistening...