Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer to the query of the title is summarized in two words "Swing it" (in the best metaphysical sense of the term). In answer to these cynics, who will remain nameless at this time, I can only say 1) that they must remember that there is often a thin line between comedy and tragedy, as between life and death, and 2) that they must remember the essentially pragmatic and Calvinistic philosophy underlying the facade presented on the scren. I think that if these skeptics will see the movie in a spirit of educational derivation rather than of entertaining diversion they...
...explained the secrets of his success. "The ingredients of a trial lawyer," said Melvin M. (for Mouron) Belli in San Francisco last week, "are imagination and initiative. You need a feeling for the plaintiff, the desire to do him some good and to stick with him through thick and thin, and the guts to do just that when everyone is criticizing you." Belli paused thoughtfully, added: "And a little law will help...
Machines to bypass the heart and lungs during operations inside the heart vary widely because surgeons have pet preferences about details. Biggest difference is in how the blood is oxygenated: some machines bubble the oxygen through the blood, others spread the blood in a thin film over screens in an oxygen-filled chamber. Virtually all the machines are now driven by an electric motor pump, and many need a squad of physicians and technicians to keep an eye on them...
This will be the critical moment. As its orbital speed decreases, the man-carrying satellite will curve downward into the atmosphere. The capsule will hit the thin upper air at almost 18,000 m.p.h.-enough energy of motion to turn capsule and pilot into incandescent vapor unless it is dissipated effectively. To ground watchers, the capsule will flare like a shooting star, leaving a broad track of flame in the sky. The pilot is expected to feel, for a brief period, about 10 g of deceleration...
...lies in the bone-dry wit and intelligence with which Novelist Austen ordered and fixed this stately marital bear garden; no novelist, before or since, ever trod more precisely the thin borderlines that divide the heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the rigid rules of the game from the fibbing, cheating gambits of the desperate players. The game is tough often to the point of grimness, but it is always comedy, never tragedy. "Let other pens," wrote plain Jane coolly, "dwell on guilt and misery...