Word: temperedness
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As Brooklyn's Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz, a hot-tempered scourge of the underworld during the day, slumbered peacefully in his seaside home, a sneak thief lifted His Honor's pants from a bedroom chair, made off with $72.
Newton's Rails. But the basic rules of space flight have been known for centuries. The Chinese, who invented rockets about 1200, did not theorize about them, but Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion, published in 1687, not only explained the principle that makes rockets fly but...
Now 67, Scherchen is trailed virtually everywhere he goes by four students whom he accepts only on condition that they will spend three years with him ("My requirements from my students are so extravagant that they have little time for personal life"). Himself a onetime viola prodigy, he made his...
José M. Bueno y Monreal, 54, native of Saragossa, Spain, was attorney general of the Madrid-Alcalá diocese during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Pius XII gave him one of the church's most delicate and difficult assignments by appointing him in 1954 archbishop...
The scene is set in a proper little horror of a boardinghouse in a glum old watering place on the Channel coast of England. The proprietor (Wendy Hiller) is a sensible, good-tempered spinster, but she has her hands full. She has developed a personal complication with the star boarder...