Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge City Councilors, local businessmen (including Tommy), firemen, and professors emeritus will perform the "extended play" version of the smash-movie-theme song/rock-ballad "You Light Up My Life" on the steps of Widener Library on the Harvard University campus on any given Sunday. (Ha.) (A: The Pythagorean theorem; upper right molars (part A), prophylaxis (part...
...about Backhouse's career (he paraphrases the hermit much more often than he actually quotes him), the reader cannot fully believe the author. Thus Trevor-Roper's attempt to explain Backhouse's turn toward Germany in the '40's as an illustration of fin desiecle elitism of the British upper class converting into fascism, is simply a poor fit. It is like trying to find a practical use for a lovely collection of China vases. Perhaps it is because he realizes this, that Trevor-Roper submerges himself once more in his artful construct of the mystery of Backhouse. Our final...
...that point, leading Crimson scorer Lee Nelson gathered in a header from Lorenzo diBonaventure and deftly dribbled by two fullbacks before setting up 15 yards out and launching a hard, left-footed shot just over the upper right corner...
Like ordinary sphygmomanometers, they work by measuring the surge of arterial blood that occurs immediately after the tightened cuff is slightly released. The major difference is that the precise moment of maximum flow, when the heart is pumping hardest-represented by the upper, or systolic, blood pressure-and that of minimum flow, or diastolic reading, are not determined by a doctor or technician listening for the coursing blood with a stethoscope pressed against the forearm. Instead, that job is done by a tiny microphone in the cuff, which sends its signals to the machine's miniature "brain"-tiny silicon...
Bolivia was a curious place for Ernesto Guevara to end up. The son of upper-class Argentine parents who encouraged him in his medical studies, a strikingly handsome young man who suffered all his life from acute attacks of asthma, by all rights he should have ended his life a wealthy doctor ensconced in Buenos Aires, idly composing poetry in his spare time, leading a reflective, unremarkable life. Instead, eight years after he and Fidel Castro had taken Cuba, he would write to his parents...